Abortion in agenda: an analysis of the subject in Uruguay between 1934 and 2012

uma análise sobre o tema no Uruguai entre 1934 e 2012

Abstract

The objective of this study is analyze the issue of the abortion in Uruguay’s between mid of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century, from the perspective of claim of the Uruguayan woman’s. The country that had the abortion decriminalized between 1934 and 1938, return to legislate about the theme in 2012, as result of claims of social movements and the support of the Board Front (BA). Analyze the factors that take the adoption in 1934 and 2012, also arises like an object of study, going on the “against of the Latin America”, as the media has called. With the approve of this public policy, Uruguay’s rescues a theme so forgotten in the continent, so many times the question is assigned to the religious and philosophies ideologies, not like a question of public health.