TAG: abortion

Unsafe abortion: another facet of femicide in Latin America

Every day women die of unsafe, illegal abortions. Two recent deaths provoked uproar in Brazil.Elisângela Barbosa, a 32-year old mother of three, died of hemorrhage after a failed clandestine abortion. Days before, 27 year-old Jandira dos Santos Cruz was disappeared after an abortion turned deadly in an illegal clinic. Her body was found burned and […]

Organization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion

10.03.14 – (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the Americas—is recommending that all governments decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and incest, when the woman’s health or life is at risk and in cases of fetal impairments. This OAS committee focused on […]

Reproductive Justice Activists Must Combat Anti-Choicers’ False Push for Disability Rights

by Erin Matson, Editor at Large, RH Reality Check September 24, 2014 – 2:41 pm All over the country, from Denver to Minneapolis and beyond, billboards recently sprang up featuring a smiling white boy cradling a white infant. “My brother is a blessing,” reads the text above the children’s heads. “He has Down syndrome.” […]

As Women Die from Illegal Abortions in Brazil, Presidential Candidates Remain Silent

By Lucy Jordan September 25, 2014 | 8:05 pm In late August, a 27-year-old woman named Jandira dos Santos Cruz went to a bus station in Rio de Janeiro and got into a stranger’s car. She was four months pregnant. Communicating via text, Cruz had arranged to meet a woman who would take her to […]

September 28th – Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion

SPW joins forces with other networks and organizations engaged in the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe Abortion. We recall that the date is a creation of Latin American feminists who choose September 28th to evoke the Brazilian 1871 Decree of the Free Womb granting freedom to the children born of slave’s mothers. […]

Global and regional campaigns for September, 28th, 2014.

International Campaign for Womens Right to Safe Abortion When abortion is a crime – Center for Reproductive Rights. Take action for the September 28 Campaign to Decriminalize Abortion: Sign our petition! – Ipas Amnesty International African Campaign Americas and the Caribbean campaign Asian Campaign European campaign

Portuguese written materials on the cases, few of which also look into the connections with electoral politics

Caso Jandira e aborto no Brasil: crime com pena de morte – Pragmatismo político Coragem para enfrentar o preconceito – Observatório da Imprensa Sobre princípios, escrúpulos e temas polêmicos – Observatório da Imprensa Aborto e machismo no mercado de trabalho – Revista Fórum Aborto não é questão de opinião – Carta Capital Igreja: pauta é […]

English written articles about the deaths of Jandira and Elizângela

Brazil’s Criminal Abortion Laws Are Killing Women – Reality Check Aborto clandestino en Brasil provoca muertes trágicas – Diário Rotativo (México) Stigma of Brazil abortions in spotlight in case of missing woman – The Global and Mail (Canadá) As Women Die from Illegal Abortions in Brazil, Presidential Candidates Remain Silent – News Vice Brazil election […]

Abortion and the general elections: a chronicle of announced tragedies

Jandira Cruz and Elisângela Barbosa died after resorting to unsafe clandestine abortion clinics. Their deaths are now inevitably interwoven with the 2014 intense and complex electoral process, which began with the tragic death of presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in August. Four years ago, in the course of the 2010 presidential elections, abortion, somehow unexpectedly, became […]

Spain withdraws Bill aimet at limiting abortion right

The Spanish government has decided to withdraw a bill that would only allow abortion in cases of rape or significant health risk to the mother or fetus. Read more on BBC and El País.

Fundamentalists Ramp Up Attacks on Human Rights Group in El Salvador

by Kathy Bougher September 2, 2014 – 7:24 pm Fundamentalist groups in El Salvador have escalated their media attacks against the “Freedom for the 17” campaign to the level of threats of criminal charges against campaign spokespeople. “Freedom for the 17” works to free from prison 17 women unjustly incarcerated on abortion-related charges. The […]

New Abortion Guidelines in Peru a Victory for Women and Girls, But More Work Ahead

by Ximena Casas, Planned Parenthood Global August 19, 2014 – 9:59 am In 2007, a 13-year-old Peruvian girl became pregnant as the result of being repeatedly raped by a man in her Lima neighborhood. Scared, ashamed, and desperate, she flung herself off a neighbor’s roof. Doctors examining the girl after the incident concluded that her spine needed […]