Bottom-up advocacy strategies to abortion access during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned towards reproductive justice in Brazil.
Dev World Bioeth
; 23(2): 147-153, 2023 06.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36103555
In Brazil, abortion is only allowed in cases of rape, serious risk to a woman's life or fetal anecephaly. Legal abortion services cover less than 4% of the Brazilian territory and only 1,800 procedures are performed, in average, per year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, almost half of the already few Brazilian abortion clinics shut down and women had to travel even longer distances, reaching abortion services at later gestational ages. In this paper, we describe three bottom-up advocacy strategies that emerged from difficulties deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic at a single abortion service in Brazil, amidst anti-gender policies from the federal government. Telemedicine abortion, outpatient surgical abortion and the provision of abortion after 20 weeks' gestation are important strategies that may reduce inequalities that impact the most vulnerable populations, such as black and indigenous women, children, adolescents and women experiencing domestic violence.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Aborto Induzido
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COVID-19
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Dev World Bioeth
Assunto da revista:
ETICA
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Reino Unido