Santiago de Chile
The mercury is around 35 degrees, the immense cemetery with its impeccably mown green lawn is almost empty.
Fernanda places a small Christmas tree adorned with red balls on a concrete slab, in addition to a few blue and white baby carriages and an orange sunflower-shaped windbreaker.
For four years, the young blonde woman has been meditating on León's grave - her baby who died
in utero
at four months pregnant, on the occasion of the end of the year celebrations.
The laughing eyes and the good nature of this mother of two children aged 7 years and 3 months disappear at the mention of the therapeutic abortion that doctors refused to do to her.
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“I got pregnant with a copper IUD
,” says Fernanda.
On April 6, 2018, I felt severe pain in my lower abdomen and started to bleed.
I then went to the emergency room of the Quilpué hospital
”, a small town between the Pacific Ocean and the Cordillera de la Côte at 1 h 30 from Santiago, bordering ...
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