Histoire(s) du MLAC (1973-1975)

Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle

doi:10.4000/clio.624

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“…Los núcleos militantes se establecieron en base a estructuras relativamente autónomas, con la condición de que respetaran la carta fundacional del movimiento (ZANCARINI-FOURNEL, 2003). Aunque solo algunos grupos practicaban abortos, en todos estos ámbitos se discutían aspectos concernientes a la sexualidad y la anticoncepción (PAVARD, 2009).…”

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La práctica del aborto en manos de feministas en los 70

Drovetta

2021

Rev. Estud. Fem.

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Resumen: Este artículo analiza las principales características de los servicios de aborto llevados adelante por organizaciones feministas en ciudades de Estados Unidos, Italia y Francia entre los años 1969 a 1978, quienes realizaron abortos en la clandestinidad, prescindiendo de la atención de personal médico. Realizamos la reconstrucción histórica y análisis comparativo de los aspectos centrales que caracterizaron a las organizaciones en base a investigaciones científicas, información contenida en artículos de divulgación (radio, periódicos y filmes), testimonios de activistas y documentos de la época actualmente disponibles para su consulta. Entre las conclusiones centrales, destacamos la importancia otorgada al objetivo político que perseguían con la apertura de servicios de abortos, la paulatina evolución de las responsabilidades asumidas por las integrantes de estos espacios y la atención de las mujeres en base a una praxis feminista.

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La práctica del aborto en manos de feministas en los 70

Drovetta

2021

Rev. Estud. Fem.

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“…73 She added information about the Mouvement pour la Libération de l'Avortement et la contraception, a militant French organisation that, was involved in abortion provision and referral. 74 Soon feminist groups in different parts of Spain began to publish and update their own lists and even feature up-to-date costs of abortion procedures at different stages of gestation. With this information, Spanish women could better prepare for their trip abroad and attend the most reliable abortion clinic they could afford, thereby rendering women's abortion travel choices more intelligible.…”

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Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985

Ignaciuk¹,

Sethna²

2020

Gender & History

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The last decade has witnessed the blossoming of abortion referral networks assisting women who live in healthcare jurisdictions that limit their access to abortion services. The Abortion Support Network has facilitated abortion travel to Britain for women from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. In 2019, it expanded to support women from Malta and Gibraltar. 1 Ciocia Basia, Kumpela and Abortion Network Amsterdam aid women from Poland, where abortion access is severely restricted, in travelling to Berlin, Leipzig and Amsterdam, respectively. In December 2019, the aforementioned organisations teamed up with Abortion Dream Team, a Polish informal activist group, to establish an 'Abortion Without Borders' initiative, which further supports Polish women's abortion travel by liaising with foreign clinics and providing information and access to abortion funds. 2 This paper historicises similar types of abortion travel by analysing abortion referral networks for Spanish women. We focus on the period between 1975-signifying the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy from a militaristic, right-wing, authoritarian regime, triggered that year by the death of dictator Francisco Franco-and 1985, the year in which abortion was partially decriminalised in Spain. Although this partial decriminalisation did not completely end Spanish women's abortion travel, it did curtail abortion travel as a mass phenomenon, with thousands of Spanish women annually boarding charter flights to Britain, taking ferries to Morocco or crossing borders to Portugal or France in search of abortion services. 3 Abortion referral networks assisting Spanish women were knit together by antifascist and feminist individuals and groups. They created broad or narrow, longstanding or temporary alliances among friends, acquaintances, medical professionals, left-wing political parties, trade unions, travel agencies, abortion referral agencies, abortion clinics and family planning centres. The sizeable numbers of Spanish women who travelled for abortion services, combined with the widespread existence of formal and informal abortion referral networks, led to the recognition of abortion as a major public health issue, the mainstreaming of abortion rights and the transmission of ideas about

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“…This demand was efficiently relayed by the Mouvement pour la Liberté de l’Avortement et de la Contraception (MLAC Movement, a social movement for the freedom of abortion and contraception) with at least 15,000 male and female members and increasing support from Planning, openly challenged the authorities by facilitating abortion in France with the safe suction method of abortion invented by Harvey Leroy Karman, and organizing trips to England and the Netherlands – countries that had already legalized abortion. Characteristic of the MLAC was its application of the traditional vocabulary of the extreme Left on issues of exploitation and repression of, and solidarity with workers; a feminist discourse on the oppression of female sexuality; the need to dissociate sexuality and procreation; and demands for free access to contraception and abortion (Zancarini‐Fournel, ). When lawyer Gisèle Halimi and author Simone De Beauvoir created the association Choisir (To Choose) in 1971, to obtain the legalization of abortion with costs covered by the French social security system, abortion had become a well‐organized feminist cause (Stetson, ).…”

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confidence: 99%