For many women of the world, discrimination can prevent women from living full and satisfying lives. Sometimes, abuses against women can even mean the difference between life and death.
Abortion remains illegal under all circumstances, including to save the life of the woman.
Women who wish to have an abortion must resort to illegal, often unsafe, procedures and risk being jailed if they are reported. Regardless, one in three pregnancies in Chile is aborted. Divorce does not exist under Chilean law. Wealthy couples wishing to separate may have the marriage dissolved through a process with a sympathetic judge in which the couple claims that their address did not match the address on the marriage certificate. While a majority of the Chilean population agrees that a divorce law should be implemented, legislators have taken no concrete steps to pass new legislation.