The women seeking abortions turned away by doctors in Chile

BBC News

Grace Livingstone

When Adriana Ávila Barraza was 12 weeks pregnant, she received some upsetting news.

Her foetus’s head was malformed, and the prognosis was not good, her doctor told her. The diagnosis was confirmed by an x-ray when she was 16 weeks pregnant – part of the skull was missing, so the brain could not develop. The foetus would not survive. . . [Full text]

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