El aborto: entre la criminalización y el contrapoder. Una lectura cultural y política en Colombia

Abstract

The project proposed here is an investigation inspired by women who have decided to terminate their pregnancy and have received direct or indirect rejections justified in the negative social representations surrounding abortion. Actions of a patriarchal culture that imposes and perpetual manifestations of power over the bodies of women and people capable of gestating despite the normative progress of partially decriminalizing abortion in Colombia. The methodology starts from feminist research, an epistemology that observes the context, gender, the particular life of women, the power relations and the organized responses of movements, collectivities of women and feminists that face symbolic discrimination and violence of Colombian society. Meanwhile, the project focuses on the organizational processes of autonomous women who accompany and inform women and people with the ability to manage on how to make a medical abortion with medicines based on the OMS-WHO (World Health Organization) protocols, and the experience that activists in Latin America and the Caribbean have developed over the last decade.