While debating a law against discrimination and after brain death of a young gay manbeaten by neo-Nazis, the controversy gained momentum with the censorship of a lesbian poster that promoted a film.
"It's outrageous," summarized the movement Homosexual Integration and Liberation(MOVILH) to discuss the facts, criticizing in particular that even a city bus company refused to exhibit the film poster said, without penalty.
Amid the debate on social networks, the president of Movilh, Rolando Jiménez, called anti-discrimination law bears the name of Daniel Zamudio, young gay murdered in Santiago after being burned, broken and marked with swastikas overnight.
"(The case) has become a symbol of what we do not want to Chile, a symbol of violence and discrimination, a symbol against homophobia," Jimenez defended.
But the controversy, evoking the legalization of gay married life in 2011, is framed in a larger discussion of moral issues in a country where the Catholic Church is a common mediator of political and social conflicts.
In fact, the last weeks ruling and opposition were divided over the possibility of therapeutic abortion legal in cases where the fetus is viable.
"No woman has the right provided by the body at the bottom, providing the home life that will be developed, to end that life," said Ena von Baer Senator of the Independent Democratic Union, the main party of government .
His words turned into trending topic on twitter, were replicated by those who argue that a woman can abort her fetus in Chile when he is dead or will die hours after birth. "The discussion about abortion in general have to give it further. Strongly support therapeutic abortion, is something to legislate now," replied the student Camila dirigenta Vallejo, leader of the thousands of anti-government protests last year.
Chile, where abortion was outlawed in 1989, months before the end of military dictatorship, is the scene of 150,000 illegal abortions per year, according to estimates by health organizations.
The president, Sebastian Pinera, who promoted the legaliziación of married life, now refused to advance a law in favor of therapeutic abortion or in case of violations. "I am in favor of protecting life and human dignity from conception to natural death," summed up the president.
A debate still seems to take years, even in a country where years ago there was no divorce and children born out of wedlock did not have the same rights as those born within it.
"(The case) has become a symbol of what we do not want to Chile, a symbol of violence and discrimination, a symbol against homophobia," Jimenez defended.
But the controversy, evoking the legalization of gay married life in 2011, is framed in a larger discussion of moral issues in a country where the Catholic Church is a common mediator of political and social conflicts.
In fact, the last weeks ruling and opposition were divided over the possibility of therapeutic abortion legal in cases where the fetus is viable.
"No woman has the right provided by the body at the bottom, providing the home life that will be developed, to end that life," said Ena von Baer Senator of the Independent Democratic Union, the main party of government .
His words turned into trending topic on twitter, were replicated by those who argue that a woman can abort her fetus in Chile when he is dead or will die hours after birth. "The discussion about abortion in general have to give it further. Strongly support therapeutic abortion, is something to legislate now," replied the student Camila dirigenta Vallejo, leader of the thousands of anti-government protests last year.
Chile, where abortion was outlawed in 1989, months before the end of military dictatorship, is the scene of 150,000 illegal abortions per year, according to estimates by health organizations.
The president, Sebastian Pinera, who promoted the legaliziación of married life, now refused to advance a law in favor of therapeutic abortion or in case of violations. "I am in favor of protecting life and human dignity from conception to natural death," summed up the president.
A debate still seems to take years, even in a country where years ago there was no divorce and children born out of wedlock did not have the same rights as those born within it.
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