{"id":296888,"date":"2023-08-24T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=296888"},"modified":"2023-08-23T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:53:01","slug":"chile-constitutional-protections-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chile-constitutional-protections-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders in Chile consider constitutional protections for the preborn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leaders in Chile are looking to protect preborn lives by passing a new constitution that would protect \u201cthe life of the unborn child and maternity.”<\/p>\n

According to The Guardian<\/a>, the country’s Republican party, which is considered conservative, swept elections for a new constitutional council in May. The council is now working on a draft constitution that would reinforce pro-life protections and restrict abortion. Abortion is currently legal in the country when the mother’s life is said to be at risk, when the preborn child has a diagnosis believed to be fatal, or in cases of rape during the first 12 weeks.<\/p>\n

Abortion supporters are fighting the proposal, arguing that without abortion, women and children are at greater risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, there is great concern over the risks to women and children implied by the suggested amendments, which threaten the most basic rights of human beings,\u201d said Lieta Vivaldi, the director of Alberto Hurtado University\u2019s gender and social justice program. \u201cIn a nation which seeks equality and justice, it is intolerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

But ending the lives of preborn human beings through starvation, poisoning, suction, dismemberment, or lethal injection violate the most basic human right of all<\/em>: the right to life. Therefore, killing an innocent human being cannot reasonably be considered a “human right.”<\/p>\n