Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office
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Women's rights activists in Chile are concerned as José Antonio Kast, a conservative president with a history of opposing abortion rights and progressive gender equality measures, prepares to take office. Kast, who has been appointed 30-year-old evangelical Judith Marín as women and gender equality minister, has consistently blocked progressive bids for women’s rights and equality across his three-decade career in politics. As a congressman, Kast voted against divorce when Chile became one of the last countries of the world to legalise it in 2004 and vehemently opposed the legalisation of abortion under limited exceptions when it was passed in 2017. Kast's Republican party has announced plans to repeal the current abortion law, which permits access under the exceptions of rape, if the mother’s life is in danger, or if the foetus is unviable.
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