Governing Abortion By Standards. Abortion Policies In Brazil Since The Late 1980s

Bibliographic Data

ID4840133
AuthorsMatthieu De Castelbajac (0000-0002-6463-450X, University of Coimbra, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume04
Issue04
Publication date2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venuee-cadernos CES (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1647-0737 • E-ISSN: 1647-0737
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/eces.210
OpenAlexW2068776077
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Brazil is one of the few countries with restrictive abortion laws to have implemented specialized hospital services to attend patients eligible for non-criminal abortion. Studying the regulation process which accompanied the implementation of these services from the late 1980s onward, the present article describes the emergence of a “government by standards” applied to legal as well as clandestine situations of abortion

Abortion · Abortion law · Environmental health · Family planning · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Medicine · Religion and Society in Latin America · Reproductive Health and Contraception