O enquadramento do aborto pela mídia impressa brasileira no período eleitoral (2010): uma questão bioética

Abstract

The present work deals with the framing of the abortion carried through for the media Brazilian printed in the electoral period (2010) and its implications as bioethical question. The objective was to identify to the matrices of framing of the abortion in the national and regional vehicles by means of mixing techniques of survey and analysis of data, in the presidential election of 2010, having as material one for analysis the notice propagated in such a way in the media printed as electronic and bioethics aspects associates. The news media that had dominated the framing of notice and the guideline on the abortion are proceeding southeastern, having contributed with 80% (N = 453) of the published notice. The authorities that had gotten voice were in its majority men (91%), and only 3 histories of life of related women the abortion had emerged of the analyzed notice, placing in evidence the stigma related to the abortion where the women are silenced. The relative contribution of the authorities in the qualification of the debate of the abortion, in 238 of the analyzed notice, was of 23% of specialists (scientists politicians, jurists or academics), equal percentage (23%) of religious; being that most was formed by politicians 52%. The framing carried through for the majority of the news media favored moral and religious a bias, with which the candidates were collated during the campaign. This bias, in turn, favored groups religious that if they had intended as promotional of as the turn of the presidential campaign, even so others was the causes more probable as the candidacy of Marina Silva and the abstentions (18%). The candidates, ruled for the framing where the thesis conservative, of moral and religious matrix, was majority (57%), had had remained favorable it, many times in detriment of its proper biography and, over all, discarding the effect of the abortion for the public health, already studied for research as the National Research of Abortion. The framing revealed as a device of being able important, when if it analyzed the media printed, therefore in it if it discloses the power to generate scenes, to give to voice the actors and authorities, and to allow or not a diversity of arguments that to empowerment the individuals to take its proper decisions, either on that candidate to still choose or on its health, as in the case of the abortion, assisting in turn in the distribution equality of the power. The proper regulation of the media in the presentation of themes that affect the public health must be longed for so that if it advances in the debate, making possible the formation of counterframings. The bioethic could act in synergic way to the framing, demanding in the composition of this scene, that the arguments possess rational attributes and of razoability, furthering consensus, that, in this in case that, have implications in the health of the woman that carries through the abortion, being for times, the differential between its life and death.