19-07-2017 19:30 via theguardian.com

Chile takes steps to legalize abortion in certain cases

After fraught debate, senate votes to legalize abortion when a woman’s life is in danger, when a fetus is unviable and when a pregnancy results from rapeChile’s senate has narrowly passed a bill to legalize abortion in certain cases, in a win for President Michelle Bachelet’s center-left coalition and for rights groups that have campaigned for years against the country’s strict ban.After a long and sometimes fractious overnight debate, the senate voted to legalize abortio
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