SAD, CRAZY, OR EVIL:

ADVANCES AND SETBACKS ON THE THEME OF ABORTION IN THE BRAZILIAN SCENARIO

Abstract

The research aims to investigate the conformation of gender oppression in the Brazilian context that reverberates in the criminalization of abortion, and how this scenario consists of the expression of the social issue. This work comes from professional work in Social Services, in conjunction with the Women's Defense Center in the socio-legal area. The results denote that these social class and gender oppressions are not recent phenomena; they predate the capitalist system's mode of production and reproduction, exacerbated by the advances of neoliberalism in recent decades, which are sustained by the strengthening of the neoconservatism bias, which sustains a scenario of misogyny and hatred of women, in control of delegitimizing women's autonomy. This scenario has been generating impacts on access to reproductive rights and, more specifically, on the right to legal abortion.