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There is a widespread opinion that Chile wasted a historic opportunity to establish a consensus Constitution, which establishes generally accepted rules of the game and where a circumstantial majority does not crush minorities. It was thought that a new Constitution would be a solution to the crisis, but the result is failure. “The essential bases of the economic system are not modified, the role of the State remains subsidiary. It is in the field of values where the majority of the right unloaded the full weight of their beliefs, enshrining a conservative religious morality and completely ignoring the diversity that exists today in our society and opening the doors to discrimination by virtue of the constitutional right to object.
conscience,” Jorge Schaulsohn , former president of the Chamber of Deputies, told the Chilean newspaper ExAnte. Among the most controversial topics is abortion, which is not mentioned directly in the text, but which Phone Number Database affects it. Among the most controversial issues is abortion, which is not directly named in the text, but which affects it by ensuring that the Constitution protects the life "of those who are yet to be born." For many, including former socialist president Michelle Bachelet , this formulation calls into question the current law, which authorizes abortion in three cases: danger to the mother's life, rape, and non-viability of the fetus. The Constitution also recognizes conscientious objection for doctors and health personnel.
To understand the journey that has been taken so far, we must go to the social outbreak of October 2019 (see box), during the second government of conservative Sebastián Piñera . The successive governments of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy - presidencies of Aylwin, Lagos and Bachelet -, which for 20 years led to a level of progress unknown in Chile, ended up exhausting themselves. And dissatisfaction began to grow in the middle class. The writer Óscar Contardo, author of Before It Was October , maintains that “the generation that led the first decades of the transition achieved material advances that changed the face of poverty, but they did not consider that, at the same time, a marginality appeared.
conscience,” Jorge Schaulsohn , former president of the Chamber of Deputies, told the Chilean newspaper ExAnte. Among the most controversial topics is abortion, which is not mentioned directly in the text, but which Phone Number Database affects it. Among the most controversial issues is abortion, which is not directly named in the text, but which affects it by ensuring that the Constitution protects the life "of those who are yet to be born." For many, including former socialist president Michelle Bachelet , this formulation calls into question the current law, which authorizes abortion in three cases: danger to the mother's life, rape, and non-viability of the fetus. The Constitution also recognizes conscientious objection for doctors and health personnel.
To understand the journey that has been taken so far, we must go to the social outbreak of October 2019 (see box), during the second government of conservative Sebastián Piñera . The successive governments of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy - presidencies of Aylwin, Lagos and Bachelet -, which for 20 years led to a level of progress unknown in Chile, ended up exhausting themselves. And dissatisfaction began to grow in the middle class. The writer Óscar Contardo, author of Before It Was October , maintains that “the generation that led the first decades of the transition achieved material advances that changed the face of poverty, but they did not consider that, at the same time, a marginality appeared.