Sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional de Chile sobre anticoncepción de emergencia (2008) y Ley nº 20.418 (2010)
In 2008, a parliamentary minority petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare a Ministry of Health decree that authorized the availability of family planning methods and the distribution of emergency contraception in public health centers to be unconstitutional. The Court held that the “right to life,” as enshrined in the Chilean Constitution, outweighed access to emergency contraception. It rejected scientific arguments that emergency contraception does not affect a conceived but not yet implanted embryo.