Heterossexualidades, contracepção e aborto: Uma pesquisa em quatro capitais latino-americanas

Gravidez Indesejada e Tentativa de Aborto: práticas e contextos

“…Em Cuba, na Cidade do México e no Uruguai, o aborto é completamente descriminalizado, enquanto na Argentina, na Colômbia e no Brasil, o aborto induzido é considerado crime -exceto quando a manutenção da gravidez acarreta risco para a vida da mulher, em casos de gestação decorrente de estupro, ou quando se constata que o feto é anencéfalo. No Chile e no Paraguai, o aborto é totalmente proibido, não existindo qualquer situação de exceção (Heilborn, 2012).…”

Vulnerability in adolescence: a case report of attempted abortion and sexual violence

“…In our case report, the patient reported a history of sexual violence from the mother's intimate partner. Furthermore, the situation of vulnerability 2,6,9,10 is perpetuated so women who have suffered any form of sexual abuse during their lifetime have a significant increase in the chances of having an unwanted pregnancy 24 . The adolescent in the referred case report was not using any contraceptive method and refused to use longterm reversible methods during outpatient care, even under multidisciplinary guidance.…”

Editorial

“…Helena Lermen, with her considerations about the volume Abortion research in Latin America and the Caribbean: a renovated agenda to inform public policy and advocacy (Ramos, 2015), highlights evident gaps in the production of knowledge about the issue in the region, when therapeutic abortion (when the woman's life is at risk) is criminalized in only seven countries. Therefore, the difficulties and obstacles for an accurate survey of abortion experiences and their implications to female itineraries, given the criminalization and social censorship built around them (Diniz & Medeiros, 2012;Heilborn et al, 2012).…”