The use of voluntary relinquishment as a barrier to legal abortion access in recent legislative bills in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4189882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberta Siqueira Mocaiber Dieguez (0000-0001-9544-2095, Universidade de São Paulo), Denise Clemente Da Silva (0009-0008-9949-2661, USP, Brasil), Cristiane Da Silva Cabral (0000-0003-3025-2404, USP, Brasil) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interface - Comunicação Saúde Educação (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1414-3283 • E-ISSN: 1807-5762 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/interface.240364 |
| OpenAlex | W4402926236 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper discusses the use of voluntary relinquishment, a legal mechanism through which pregnant women can choose to place their babies for adoption, as a strategy to curtail legal abortion. We begin with two widely publicized cases involving pregnant girls under the age of fourteen - situations in which abortion is not criminalized due to the presumption of statutory rape. We conduct a documentary analysis from an ethnographic perspective of recent legislative bills that regulate or promote voluntary relinquishment. The argument that there are "30,000 couples" waiting to adopt a baby is often used to delay or prevent legal abortion access. Although it is the right of every pregnant woman, the use of this apparatus as a "solution" to abortion has been an important instrument in attacks on sexual and reproductive rights in Brazil
Abortion · Biology · Business · Legislature · Political science · Pregnancy · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |