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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Legislature votes to end blanket ban on abortion
After two and a half years of parliamentary debate, a bill decriminalising abortion in three circumstances has come to the end of the legislative process in Chile. Earlier this month Chile’s bicameral legislature approved a bill which decriminalises abortion when pregnancy results from rape or incest, when the life of the pregnant woman is at risk, or if there is lethal foetal impairment. While the there is widespread public support for the initiative, the future of the bill remains subject to doubt after legislators from the centre-right Chile Vamos opposition coalition (which includes the right-wing Unión Demócrata Independiente [UDI] party and the more centrist Renovación Nacional [RN] party) presented a legal challenge against the bill before the constitutional court (TC) on the grounds that it goes counter to constitutional provisions that “protect life”.
- Cartes takes principled stance against subsidising farmers’ debts
- Macri celebrates electoral results
- Argentina and the UK lay out vision for stronger commercial ties
- Legislature votes to end blanket ban on abortion
- Turning a page with Bolivia?
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- Astori celebrates GDP and inflation figures
- Temer survives another scandal
- Brazil loses influence abroad
- Failing to meet deforestation targets
- In times of crisis, Rio de Janeiro calls on the army
- Renewed enthusiasm for potential EU-Mercosur trade deal