Early this month, Chile's health minister announced the government's plan to distribute the morning-after pill to women for free, even to those as young as 14 years. Well, there have been developments since then.
After the announcement, the country's Youth for Life Association organized a march to demonstrate their protest against the move.
Even parents expressed their rejection of the Chilean government's decision, with the National Catholic School Parents' Union stating that it is "unacceptable that, while parents strive to provide a sexual education that forms men and women who maturely live responsible fatherhood and motherhood in the context of marriage open to new life, the government takes the abusive and unilateral decision to distribute the pill to girls in order to avoid pregnancy by taking the easy way out."
Now, lawsuits have been filed, and the result is the government's putting a hold on the distribution of the morning-after pill to women from 14 to 18 years of age.
Let's see what happens next...
In the meantime, a court ruling in Peru has recognized the anti-implantation effect of the morning-after pill.
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