Backlash and Counter-Backlash
Safeguarding Access to Legal Abortion in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11470927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Maria Bacellar Sardenberg (0000-0002-1896-9800, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Teresa Sacchet (0000-0002-1592-2169, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Maíra Kubík Mano (0000-0002-4201-5636, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Luire Campelo (0000-0002-0779-9084, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Camila Daltro (0009-0001-7240-3082, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Talita Melgaço Fernandes (0000-0001-6245-5498, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Heloisa Bandeira (0009-0009-9262-9183, Universidade Federal da Bahia) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IDS Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436 |
| Publisher | Institute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.19088/1968-2024.104 |
| OpenAlex | W4392456751 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article addresses the backlash against reproductive rights during Jair Bolsonaro’s government, focusing on access to legal abortions. Although access to abortion is quite restricted in Brazil, under Bolsonaro it was further curtailed through institutionalised spaces of power. This was met by counter-backlash actions, with an intensification of feminist activism in an attempt to secure an agenda of hard-won reproductive rights. To address this struggle for reproductive rights and against restrictions, we focus our analysis on the high-profile media case of an 11-year‐old girl, pregnant after being raped
Abortion · Backlash · Geography · Livelihood · OpenAccess · Political science · Pregnancy · Safeguarding · Engineering · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |