Abstract

CASAS-BECERRA, Lidia et al. The right to information: the role of primary health care in the implementation of the abortion law in Chile. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2023, n.58, pp.73-92.  Epub Sep 25, 2023. ISSN 1886-5887.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1344/rbd2023.58.39840.

This article presents the results of a qualitative research that inquiries about the implementation of the law on termination of pregnancy that decriminalized abortion on three specific grounds in Chile in 2017 (Law 21.030) and the role of primary health care (PHC) in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. Nineteen interviews were conducted with PHC and secondary level of care health professionals in addition to two officials from the Ministry of Health. The change from a regime of total criminalization to one of decriminalization by cause requires training for health teams and information for the population. The findings reveal that the lack of information and formal training for health personnel constitutes an obstacle to the exercise of women's rights under the law, producing a cascade effect in which women do not have sufficient information to exercise their rights. In addition, there is a provision in the law that causes confusion among professionals about advertising and information on services. The results are analyzed on the basis of national and international normative standards regarding the obligation to inform and the right to be informed in the context of health services related to abortion.

Keywords : abortion; obligation to inform; right to be informed; patients' rights; primary health care; sexual and reproductive rights; women's rights.

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