If chile's health minister, Dr Soledad Barria, thought that making her announcement at a quiet Saturday session of a gynaecological conference would help the news to slip down more easily, she was wrong. For many in Latin America's most socially conservative country, the idea of their teenage daughters being able to nip round to their local health centre for emergency contraception—the morning-after pill—without their knowledge or consent, is too much for them to swallow.
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