Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite

The Chilean senate is discussing a proposal to decriminalize abortion in 3 causals. One of these is when the pregnancy occurs as a result of a rape. To be legally able to perform the abortion in this circumstance, a health care team must confirm the occurrence of the facts constituting the offence....

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Autores principales: González-Wilhelm,Leonardo, Moreno,Leonardo, Carnevali,Raúl
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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2016
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720160006000132016-10-03Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámiteGonzález-Wilhelm,LeonardoMoreno,LeonardoCarnevali,Raúl Abortion Legal Abortion Induced Chile Criminal Law Legislation Rape The Chilean senate is discussing a proposal to decriminalize abortion in 3 causals. One of these is when the pregnancy occurs as a result of a rape. To be legally able to perform the abortion in this circumstance, a health care team must confirm the occurrence of the facts constituting the offence. Regardless of the patient’s will, the accusation will be reported to the justice. In our view, in its current status the proposed rule does not consider certain medicolegal and procedural topics. Those flaws may determine in certain scenarios critical problems, such as: a) a wrongful conviction as a consequence of a false allegation of rape; (b) some pregnant due to a rape will not have access to the abortion procedure; (c) some accusations of rape will not be accredited nor criminally sanctioned. Employing a fictional case, we illustrate how those scenarios can actually be seen in practice. We also emphasize the difficulties and limitations that the health care team will encounter if the project is approved under the current conditions. Finally, we encourage the professional societies implicated in the theme to contribute in the legislatorial debate. Therefore, we give a set of proposals aimed to improve the bill before it may be enacted as a law.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.144 n.6 20162016-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872016000600013es10.4067/S0034-98872016000600013
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Abortion
Legal
Abortion
Induced
Chile
Criminal Law
Legislation
Rape
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Legal
Abortion
Induced
Chile
Criminal Law
Legislation
Rape
González-Wilhelm,Leonardo
Moreno,Leonardo
Carnevali,Raúl
Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite
description The Chilean senate is discussing a proposal to decriminalize abortion in 3 causals. One of these is when the pregnancy occurs as a result of a rape. To be legally able to perform the abortion in this circumstance, a health care team must confirm the occurrence of the facts constituting the offence. Regardless of the patient’s will, the accusation will be reported to the justice. In our view, in its current status the proposed rule does not consider certain medicolegal and procedural topics. Those flaws may determine in certain scenarios critical problems, such as: a) a wrongful conviction as a consequence of a false allegation of rape; (b) some pregnant due to a rape will not have access to the abortion procedure; (c) some accusations of rape will not be accredited nor criminally sanctioned. Employing a fictional case, we illustrate how those scenarios can actually be seen in practice. We also emphasize the difficulties and limitations that the health care team will encounter if the project is approved under the current conditions. Finally, we encourage the professional societies implicated in the theme to contribute in the legislatorial debate. Therefore, we give a set of proposals aimed to improve the bill before it may be enacted as a law.
author González-Wilhelm,Leonardo
Moreno,Leonardo
Carnevali,Raúl
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Moreno,Leonardo
Carnevali,Raúl
author_sort González-Wilhelm,Leonardo
title Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite
title_short Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite
title_full Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite
title_fullStr Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite
title_full_unstemmed Consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de Ley de Aborto actualmente en trámite
title_sort consideraciones médico-legales sobre causal de violación contenida en el proyecto de ley de aborto actualmente en trámite
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