March for abortion ends with three women stabbed in Chile

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet was one of the first to condemn the event: "I deeply repudiate the violent attacks against 3 women who participated last night in the #AbortoLibre march in Chile", she writes on Twitter. [19659002] Bachelet said that "this type of intimidation of social movements recalls the worst years of dictatorship and is unacceptable in a democratic country". He thus condemned the attack of three protesters stabbed in the legs at the end of the march in favor of a free, safe and free abortion.

The three young women were on the side of the stage, near the República metro. They were attacked by hoods.

The members of the march immediately informed the networks: "They stabbed three girls and others were beaten by hoods at the end of the march in Santiago, we will not accept these acts we will find those who are abusing us. " [19659002] The feminist coordinator issued a statement where, with the report that the three stabbed women are out of danger, confirmed that the attack came from members of the neo-Nazi social movement Patriot.

"From the beginning we received provocations at the height of the Catholic University In an action that was later awarded, the patriotic social movement made a barricade blocking our progress canvases that called for the mbad sterilization of women's activists. "

The Patriotic Social Movement – of the neo-Nazi affiliation He rewarded on Twitter the" contraprotesta "made against the protesters who marched in favor of the. Free abortion in Alameda, Santiago, and ended with three girls stabbed and beaten.

Through his account in said social network, the group claimed that "we painted Alameda with blood and animal viscera to remind #Aborteras that what they are looking for , it's killing children. We hope the smell of rot will bring them back to the real world. "

Later, another post was posted announcing that" we will not go to allow them to destroy Chile, progress with the social patriots will not be easy, the counter we made in the march of the murderers will not appear on TV. "

For its part, the One of the "spokespersons" of the group, Pedro Kunstmann, said on the same social network that "we social patriots of the protest against street Alameda abortion! Against radical badbadins, radical patriots!"

green scarves

Protesters, most women with green scarves, like what is p in Argentina, were met at Plaza Italia, one of the hotspots of Santiago, and from there they continued along the southern route of Alameda.

Police said that at the end of the march some hooded people caused the disorder and several of them were arrested. ❧

the key

• Also in Valparaíso there was a mbadive demonstration in favor of free abortion. According to the police, in other Chilean cities such as Concepción, Temuco and Valdivia, the women also marched. In addition to women, a rifleman officer also received a knife wound on one of his legs

"A woman should never be sentenced for difficult decision"

• After two years of treatment, On August 3, 2017, Chile approved the historic law sent by former President Bachelet that decriminalizes abortion in three cases: fetal infeasibility, life threatening to women and pregnancy to the rape. In this line, parliamentarians today announced the introduction of a bill that aims to regulate the termination of pregnancy regardless of the three causes with a limit of 14 weeks of gestation.
• The idea is "never can a woman be sentenced to prison for making the decision to terminate her pregnancy," said Senator Guido Girardi of the Democracy Party (PPD)