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Reuters
Health
Alexander Villegas

Chile abortion debate gets key place in Constitution redraft

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators hold placards reading "abortion legal and free" during a march for free abortion rights and to demand an end to sexism and gender violence in the education system, in Valparaiso, Chile July 25, 2018. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido/File Photo

Chile's divisive battle over abortion rights could get a central role in the Andean country's planned new constitution after an assembly voted to approve part of the draft text that calls on the state to guarantee women's reproductive rights.

A week after thousands of women marched through the streets of Santiago on International Women's Day, Chile's constituent assembly voted to include reproductive rights, including "a voluntary interruption of pregnancy" in the draft constitution.

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