2018
DOI: 10.5380/rinc.v5i3.60973
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Constitutionalizing abortion in Brazil

Abstract: Brazil has been constitutionalizing disputes on women's right to terminate unwanted pregnancy. This paper explains how this process started with the drafting of the new constitution in 1986-87, and evolved in different arenas, the legislative, the executive and in the public sphere. Most recently, it moved to the Supreme Court, primarily in its anencephalic pregnancy decision, brought as a Claim of Non Compliance with Fundamental Precept (ADPF 54). Decided in 2012, it was the first time since the adoption of t… Show more

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“…Abortion is illegal in Brazil, except if there is a risk to the pregnant woman's life, the fetus has anencephaly, or in the case of rape. 20 As explained by the UN Human Rights Committee, the compulsory notification "may inhibit women from seeking medical treatment, thereby endangering their lives". 21 Finally, criminally framing the act of seeking medical treatment in those cases helps to build a stigmatizing and discriminating environment against women.…”
Section: The Re Soluti On Imp Os Ing the D Isclosure Of S E Xual Abmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Abortion is illegal in Brazil, except if there is a risk to the pregnant woman's life, the fetus has anencephaly, or in the case of rape. 20 As explained by the UN Human Rights Committee, the compulsory notification "may inhibit women from seeking medical treatment, thereby endangering their lives". 21 Finally, criminally framing the act of seeking medical treatment in those cases helps to build a stigmatizing and discriminating environment against women.…”
Section: The Re Soluti On Imp Os Ing the D Isclosure Of S E Xual Abmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, compulsory notification to law enforcement authorities may inhibit women from seeking healthcare services to terminate a pregnancy or because of complications caused by an unsafe abortion procedure due to the risk of facing charges brought by law enforcement authorities following the doctor's notification. Abortion is illegal in Brazil, except if there is a risk to the pregnant woman's life, the fetus has anencephaly, or in the case of rape 20 . As explained by the UN Human Rights Committee, the compulsory notification "may inhibit women from seeking medical treatment, thereby endangering their lives" 21 .…”
Section: The Resolution Imposing the Disclosure Of Sexual Abuse Casesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the Legislative area, recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of bills aiming to deny women's access to abortion, under the argument of the absolute right to life for embryos and fetuses starting at conception. For example, Congressional Amendment n. 29 of 2015 proposes to alter Article 5 of the Brazilian National Constitution to include the inviolability of the right to life starting at conception 16. In the opposite direction, jurisprudence in the Brazilian Supreme Court has tended to acknowledge women's reproductive rights 17…”
Section: Threats To Rights Won In Brazilmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Outras análises resumiram esse argumento na afirmação de que o Supremo Tribunal Federal reconheceu que a proteção do direito à vida não é absoluta (Machado, Cook, 2018), o que é uma análise correta e foi precisamente a conclusão normativa do caso, a qual tinha como precedente imediato o julgamento de 2008 da ADI 3510, sobre pesquisas com células-tronco embrionárias. No entanto, parece importante também ressaltar o giro conceitual e moral que tornou essa conclusão possível, a qual talvez tenha uma composição sutilmente distinta: de fato houve um esforço argumentativo de diversos ministros para apresentar o direito à vida como não sendo absoluto, mas a conclusão do processo não foi negativa ou restritiva.…”
Section: Dignidade Da Mulher Interesses Da Sociedadeunclassified