Bridging the Gap: Feminist Movements and their Efforts to Advance Abortion Rights in Chile

Chile allowed therapeutic abortion (cases in which the mother’s life was in danger) from 1931 until 1989, the last year of the Pinochet military dictatorship. After Pinochet stepped down, Chile underwent a democratic transition in 1990 that was heavily reliant on a moral fundamentalist mentality, pr...

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Main Author: Ivanescu, Yvonne
Other Authors: Martinez, Andrea
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26270
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3318