O papel do movimento feminista como garantia de direitosreprodutivos das mulheres

Abstract

This work aims to examine a topic of great contemporary relevance in the scope of Criminal Law, namely, clandestine abortion as a consequence of authoritarian strategies of social control of female bodies formulated by the various instances of power, as well as to address the discussion in relation to abortion with a secular, race and class approach to the issue of public health as a factor in crime prevention. To this end, the objective is to examine how the aforementioned theme dialogues with matters of a moral, social and religious nature, and to verify how and to what extent the women’s movement can challenge the current scenario of criminalization of abortion, violation of women’s reproductive rights and maternal mortality. For this reason, the object of this study consists of carrying out qualitativeexploratory and quantitative research by sampling using bibliographical research, formed by theses, dissertations and scientific articles in the legal area, documentary research, the main statistical surveys on the topic and jurisprudential research , with the aim of better specifying the need for attention to human rights, as well as the patent homogeneity within the social groups with the highest frequency of mortality due to clandestine abortion in Brazil. Thus, the scope places the issue in the context of critical and feminist criminology when it comes to social control and the penalizing selection of female bodies.