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Estefany Cavieres, 28, knows the symptoms of pregnancy well. Your stomach and breasts hurt, you feel nauseous, and you are tired. Therefore, when he felt them, he did not doubt it: was one of the 111 Chilean women who had become pregnant due to defective contraceptives.
“One day they called me from my medical center to let me know, there were some batches in poor condition, but my pills did not correspond to those boxes and I was calm,” the young woman, who had been undergoing this family planning treatment for three months, explained to EFE. administered in public hospitals.
However, he soon confirmed his suspicions. A pharmacological negligence had truncated his life plans, manage to stabilize his work as a stylist and dedicate himself to caring for his second daughter, aged three, who has health problems.
“The world is already too complicated to bring more children. And now I wonder: who do I trust? It makes one angry because the system lets it down“adds Cavieres, who after three months of unwanted pregnancy and depression, suffered a miscarriage.
“I see the wadding and it reminds me of this nightmare”
Valentina Donoso, 21, touches her belly while speaking. You are 6 1/2 months pregnant, but also “he was taking care of himself with Anulette CD”, a contraceptive distributed in numerous public health centers in Chile, where thousands of women from the lowest socioeconomic strata receive their medications.
“Looking in the mirror is hard, I see my wadding and it reminds me of this nightmare. There are days when I wake up well and I want to have it, but most do not,” explains the young woman, who has had to pause her plans to study at university.
Between March and September 2020, the Institute of Public Health (ISP), the highest pharmacological authority in the country, warned that Eight batches of six different contraceptive pills administered in public health centers were defective and he ordered their withdrawal from the market.
However, the institution again allowed the distribution of one of the brands, Anulette CD, just a week after removing it, alluding to the fact that the flaws were visually detectable. More than 100 women reported unwanted pregnancies due to this drug, some of them minors, according to data from the Miles Corporation.
ISP sources consulted by Efe affirmed that the institution still “is studying his position and responsibility in the case”.
For Laura Dragnic, Miles’ lawyer, in this case there are two responsible: first, the laboratory that manufactured the drugs and second, the State for not monitoring their quality and for not meeting the needs of those affected.
Unable to abort
Like other affected women, Donoso was denied the right to abortion since this pharmacological negligence does not strictly fall within any of the three grounds for which abortion is allowed in Chile: rape, unfeasibility of the fetus or life risk of the mother.
For Estefanny Molina, a lawyer for Women’s Link Worldwide, a platform that raised the case to the United Nations (UN) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), this situation represents “a complete chain of violation of the sexual rights of Chilean women “.
“Chile has a challenge ahead. It is necessary to broaden the concept of sexual health and therefore to review the decriminalization of abortion“, sentence.
“It cannot be,” Molina concluded, “that half of the population in Chile remains unprotected because the State does not care about the guarantee of sexual and reproductive rights,” he concluded.
