“Women will recover the basic right they should never have lost: to decide when we live painful moments,” President Michelle Bachelet said on Twitter in reference to the fact that abortion was legal before the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). “Women have won, democracy has won, and Chile has won,” Bachelet said later from the presidential palace La Moneda. Bachelet’s much-trumpeted reform agenda has largely fallen flat over the last three years, and her popularity has slumped accordingly, but she now looks like leaving office in March 2018 with one positive legacy.
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