By Anthony Esposito SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's president, Michelle Bachelet, unveiled plans on Saturday to ease a complete ban on abortions in the socially conservative South American country. In a televised address, leftist Bachelet said she was sending Congress a draft bill that would permit abortion when a mother's life is at risk, a fetus will not survive the pregnancy, or in the case of rape. The outright ban on terminations was put in place during the final days of Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship. A number of attempts since then to legalize abortion have been blocked by right-wing legislators.
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After Uruguay moved to legalize marijuana in 2013, the approach has taken root in Latin America with other countries now considering a revamp of their own drug laws. "Someone has to start in South America," Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said in late 2013 as he unveiled plans to make cannabis legal in his country. Under Mujica, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana all the way from the cannabis field to the joint, ...
For the first time a Spanish hospital has successfully used stem cells culled from healthy donors to treat seven heart attack victims. Madrid's Gregorio Maranon hospital plans to treat 55 patients in all with the technique in a clinical trial, the regional Madrid government which runs the hospital said in a statement. "Seven patients have already been operated on and they have progressed very well despite having suffered serious damage to their heart ...
A new research has shown that men take twice more selfies and share them online as compared to women. The smartphone company HTC surveyed 2,000 Britishers and found that a quarter of men shares selfies to make their ex or current partner jealous, the Daily Star reported. The researchers found that men post an average of three self portraits each week as compared to women who post 1.6 pictures. The survey disclosed that men capture their ...
Beverley Gilmour has claimed that she has experienced around hundreds of near death experiences in her lifetime. She claimed to be the only British person to be receiving medical treatment for chronic near-death experiences, the Daily Express reported. A graphic designer by profession said that she had been going through near death experiences (NDE) three times in a month since 1987. Ms Gilmour explained she suffers from severe headaches ...
A new study has claimed that people aged over 70 too enjoy an active sex life. According to new research from The University of Manchester and NatCen Social Research, more than half (54 percent) of men and almost a third (31 percent) of women over the age of 70 reported they were still sexually active, with a third of these men and women having frequent sex - meaning at least twice a month. It is the first study on sexual health of its kind to include ...