Chile’s Shocking DIY Abortion Ad Campaign

[Judi Lynn]

2. Women Are Fighting Abortion Laws By Coming Up With Their Own “Termination Tips”

Women Are Fighting Abortion Laws By Coming Up With Their Own “Termination Tips”

The YouTube tutorials are intended to mock Chile’s ban on pregnancy termination. BuzzFeed News spoke with the agency that created the video and the NGO pushing the cause.

posted on May. 7, 2015, at 11:56 p.m.

Claudia Dides, the director of the NGO, told BuzzFeed News that the democracy in Chile has a debt with women rights regarding abortion.

In the Health Commission session (at the Chilean Congress, where this issue is being discussed) debating about therapeutical abortion with @ClaudiaDides and @MilesChile.

A law that was passed during the dictatorship more than 30 years ago banning abortion under any circumstances, even when the mother and fetus’ lives are in danger, is still enforced.

[font size=3]“This campaign is provocative,” said Dides, “but real women are indeed advised to fall from the stairs to self-induce a miscarriage.”[/font]

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