In 2017, abortion in Chile was decriminalized. Now women can legally access abortion in cases of rape, lethal fetal anomaly, and to preserve a woman’s life.
This study is assessing whether future women’s health professionals in Chile welcome or are prepared for this legal change. A better understanding of their attitudes about and willingness to provide abortion is critical to identifying reproductive health training needs and the barriers that would need to be overcome if abortion were liberalized in Chile.
Inspired by the success of the Turnaway Study, the goal of this project is to launch a multi-country study to compare the consequences of legal abortion, illegal abortion, and carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term in a variety of settings.
Nearly half of the countries with liberal or liberally interpreted abortion laws had public funding for abortion, including most countries that liberalized their abortion law in the past 20 years. Outliers remain, however, including among developed countries where access to abortion may be limited due to affordability.
Banner image (cropped): Adapted from infographic designed for ANSIRH by Jessica Harrington, with art direction by Kate Giambrone and Julianna Johnson
Banner image (cropped): Courtesy Asian Development Bank, via Creative Commons license
Banner image (cropped): Photo courtesy of former California Speaker of the Assembly, John Pérez (pictured center) announcing CA law AB 154, allowing nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to perform abortions, a change that drew heavily on ANSIRH research.
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