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The total prohibition of abortion in Chile has been lifted in 2017, after a lot of the campaign for women's rights groups

was When Adriana Avila Barraza was 12 weeks pregnant, she received some shocking news.

her fetus head was invalid, and the prognosis was not good, the doctor told her. The Diagnosis was confirmed by an x-ray, if you was missing, was 16 weeks pregnant - a part of The Skull , The Brain could not develop. The fetus would not Survive .

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Since then, abortions have been allowed, under three strict conditions: if A Mother 's life is in danger, if a woman has been raped, if the fetus is not viable.

Turned

- Knowing that the fetus had no chance of survival to term, Adriana, she asked her doctor for a termination. But he refused.

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He was one of The Hundreds of doctors in Chile, who describe themselves as "conscientious objectors" because they refuse abortions.

"He gave Me Two options," says Adriana to wait until the fetus has died, or "to pray".

perplexed, Adriana went to a public hospital in the capital, Santiago . But the staff seemed to have no knowledge of The Abortion law, she says, even if the legislation is passed, a few months earlier. You would not to carry out an abortion.

she went to a second hospital in Santiago , and again, turned away.

It was only when she went to a third hospital, the medical staff, agreed the implementation of a notice of termination.

But she said she needed a diagnosis to your original doctor. He refused, causing several weeks of delay.

In his despair, Adriana Chile Ministry of health, which finally arranged an abortion contacted.

This Time , she was 26 weeks pregnant. Adriana had been induced to endure a 24-hour work, at the birth of a dead fetus.

'lifetime'

Adriana doctor is not an exception. When The Law decriminalising abortion adopted by the centre-left Government of President Michelle Bachelet , a clause was included, allowing the doctors to refuse the performance of terminations for reasons of personal conscience.

Two years, one-fifth of the obstetrics doctors in public hospitals say that they will not perform abortions even if a woman's life is in danger,

Getty' conscientious objector' in Chile' s houses

50%, the doctor does not want to perform abortions, the public health, if a woman was raped,

29% of the doctor to refuse cancellations if the fetus is unlikely to Survive

21%, the doctor does not want to perform abortions even if a woman's life is in danger

source: Chilean Ministry of health

There are many more "conscientious objector" physicians in private clinics and hundreds of paramedics and anaesthetists also refuse to.

Dr. Luis Jensen is one of the "conscientious objector" to work in a private clinic in Santiago .

Dr. Luis Jensen says that he says not to have abortions

to perform"I study medicine 40 Years ago",. "I learned at the Medical School , the doctors should serve the life, to restore health and cure disease. We were never taught to, the treatments, the kill," he says.

Dr. Jensen says that, if A Mother 's life is in danger, he would cut a early Emperor, as that, in his view, would not be considered a termination, because the aim of the operation would be to destroy the fetus.

If a woman was raped or her fetus was not viable, he would encourage them to continue with the pregnancy. This would be better than "living with the knowledge that you killed your own child," he argues.

Camila Maturana is a lawyer for the non-governmental rights group Corporación Humanas and provides a number of women, the terminations were rejected.

she says that the current conservative Government of President Sebastián Piñera has made it more difficult for women to access their right to an abortion.

The Piñera Government has new rules in the year 2018 and makes it easier for the doctors, "a conscientious objector".

Public hospitals, for example, no longer have to ensure that there are always medical staff available to pregnancy to terminate.

Debora Solis says, women are forced to opt for risky backstreet abortions

The Government also recently a Constitutional Court and won a judgment, which allows private hospitals and clinics that refuse to perform abortions continue to receive Government funding.

Debora Solís, Director of the Chilean Association for the protection of The Family , which runs sexual health clinics across the country, says The State failed, forcing the access to legal abortions, thousands of women and girls who have abortions for illegal backstreet, effectively your life is in danger.

', I felt so Alone '

Pro-Government deputies Guillermo Ramírez is abortion one of those who defends doctors refuse. "My personal opinion is that the conscientious objections to military service on grounds of conscience is a liberal principle that we must defend it at any price," he says.

Congressman Guillermo Ramírez believes that doctors should have The Right to be "conscientious objectors"

He, that with limited resources, the priority should not lie in the provision of abortions in any hospital. "Chile has many of medical supply. We do not have a cardiologist in each hospital, so why should we, the doctors, the carrying out of abortions in all hospitals?", he argues.

He says that if The First hospital, that a woman will not make an abortion, it will be simply transferred to a different does.

But Adriana Avila, who was turned away from a private hospital and two public hospitals, says The Experience was traumatic.

"I was desperate, I knew where to turn. I didn't have to die that the fetus was going, so that's why I must, by this agony?" she asks.

"I felt so Alone . "

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Source of news: bbc.com