Primary health care, access to legal abortion and the notion of ideal victim among medical practitioners: The case of Chile.

Chile abortion ideal victim primary health care rape stereotype

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 29 07 2022
accepted: 24 10 2022
entrez: 5 12 2022
pubmed: 6 12 2022
medline: 6 12 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

In 2017, Chile enacted new legislation allowing access to legal abortion on three grounds, including rape. This article summarizes a qualitative, exploratory study that examined the role of primary healthcare services in the treatment of rape survivors in order to identify challenges and strengths in accessing legal abortion. The relevant data was collected through 19 semi-structured interviews conducted with key informants. The angry legislative debate that preceded enactment of the 2017 abortion bill evidenced the presence of strong biases against survivors of sexual violence. At the time, abortion opponents sought,

Identifiants

pubmed: 36467236
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1007126
pmc: PMC9714443
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1007126

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Casas, Álvarez, Vivaldi, Montero, Bozo and Babul.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Lidia C Casas (LC)

Faculty of Law, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.

Juan J Álvarez (JJ)

Instituto de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.

Lieta V Vivaldi (LV)

Faculty of Law, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile.

Adela R Montero (AR)

Centro de Medicina Reproductiva y Desarrollo para el adolescente (CEMERA),Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Natalia Bozo (N)

Subsecretaría de la Niñez, Santiago, Chile.

Jorge Babul (J)

Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.

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