A plan to ease a ban on abortion in Chile has the backing of 70 percent of the country, a new poll released on Monday suggested, as a government push to do so navigated legislative problems.
A bill allowing abortion in cases of rape, if the mother's life is at risk, or if the fetus presents a deadly birth defect got held up in the National Congress last week when a lawmaker from the ruling coalition abstained from the vote, preventing a quorum.