----- PRACTICES AND STATEMENTS OF HEALTH TEAMS IN THE CRIMINALIZATION OF WOMEN FOR ABORTION

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Authors

  • Ela Wiecko Volkmer de Castilho Universidade de Brasília
  • ---- Universidade de Brasília
  • Tânia Mara Campos de Almeida Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v26i3.64905

Abstract

In contrast to the recent proactive stance of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), aligned with the perspective of Human Rights regarding reproductive justice, state courts have denied access to legal abortion even in pregnancies resulting from rape and which pose a risk to the lives of girls, women and people carrying the baby. In cases of self-induced abortion or abortion with the mother's consent, an environment in the justice system is even more resistant to the well-being, autonomy and respect for the mother. In a study carried out on the judgments of the Courts of Justice of Minas Gerais (TJMG), Rio Grande do Sul (TJRS) and São Paulo (TJSP) derived from articles 124 and 126 of the Penal Code, between 2012 and 2023, it is noteworthy that records in the proceedings of different forms of institutional violence by health teams in the care of those who demand medical services due to unsafe procedures. Such actions and speeches by these teams are not only ignored by the Judiciary due to their violent profiles but have also served as a basis for fostering discriminatory judgment, reproducing stigmas and patriarchal stereotypes about the defendants in their decisions. When analyzing the judgments, therefore, it is concluded that a continuous and similar medico-legal standard has been established between the health teams and the Judiciary in the steps involving the complaint, investigation, gathering of evidence and conviction over the last 12 years, mobilizing conservative social representations from a gender perspective and cutting off the rights of women, girls and people who are pregnant in the country.

 

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Ela Wiecko Volkmer de Castilho, Universidade de Brasília

Doutorado em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1996). Professora aposentada da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Brasília, e pesquisadora colaboradora no Programa de Pós-Graduação de Direito. Lidera o Grupo Candango de Criminologia, o Moitará-Grupo de Pesquisa de Direitos Étnicos e o Grupo de Pesquisa Direito, Gênero e Famílias. Credenciada no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direitos Humanos e Cidadania, Participa da Red de Académicos/as de Derecho de la América Latina (RED ALAS), da Rede Brasileira Mulheres Cientistas, do Observatório Caleidoscópio e do Consórcio Lei Maria da Penha pelo Enfrentamento a Todas as Formas de Violência de Gênero contra as Mulheres.

Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7669520117195056

----, Universidade de Brasília

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Tânia Mara Campos de Almeida, Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

Pós-doutorado em Representações Sociais pela UnB (Instituto de Psicologia, 2006), pela Université de Provence e pela EHESS (França, 2007). Mestrado e Doutorado em Antropologia pela Universidade de Brasília-UnB. Bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora-UFJF (1989). É pesquisadora e professora associada do Departamento de Sociologia - UnB, docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGSOL), integrante do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Mulheres (NEPeM).

Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5972548202499046

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Published

2025-01-31

How to Cite

WIECKO VOLKMER DE CASTILHO, E. .; FROTA WARDI, C. .; DE ALMEIDA, T. M. C. ----- PRACTICES AND STATEMENTS OF HEALTH TEAMS IN THE CRIMINALIZATION OF WOMEN FOR ABORTION: -------. Confluências | Interdisciplinary Review of Sociology and Law, v. 26, n. 3, p. 319-343, 31 Jan. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 3 (2024): Dossiê Diálogos latino-americanos sobre direitos humanos e justiça reprodutiva: trajetórias de debates e mobilizações em 20 anos de judicialização do aborto no Brasil

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Dossiê

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