[INTERVIEW] Talking to Dr. Claudio Diaz, a Psychologist by Matías José González Campos

1) Does abortion affect psychologically to the mother?

 Yes it does affect, but it depends on the causes, if the mother got pregnant as result of a rape, it will affect her more than a woman who got pregnant because she didn’t use a birth control.

2) Why society doesn’t want to talk so much about abortion?

Well, because we Chilean people have so a deep concept of “Christians” that’s why when we talk about abortion we already think that it's bad.

3) If the mother has an abortion in a legal abortion clinic, the mother will be calmer?

Yes it´s helpful to be calmer, and if abortion becomes legal, the mother will have a great team to support her like: psychologists, good surgeons, and psychiatrists.

4) What do you think about the legalization of therapeutic abortion?

Well, it's time to move on and believe in therapeutic abortion. If the mother has a dead baby inside and it might affect her life, won't she have an abortion only because it isn't legal? On that case we are going to let the mother die because we don’t have an open mind. Society need to have an open mind and save the lives of thousands of mothers.

Matias José González Campos.