ABORTO E DIREITOS HUMANOS: UM ESTUDO COMPARADO NA AMÉRICA LATINA

Abstract

The present article has as its theme the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in Latin America, and its objective is to analyze, in a comparative way, the situation of this practice in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, relating the right to the interruption of pregnancy to free family planning. Despite being considered a crime in Brazil for several decades, abortion is still often practiced in an unsafe manner, causing thousands of deaths every year. However, the international trend, including in Latin America, is the legalization of pregnancy termination, especially in Uruguay and Argentina, despite having similar historical, social and religious resistance to that seen in Brazil. A qualitative, exploratory, bibliographical and documentary research was used, with emphasis on works by Piovesan (2002), Correa and Pecheny (2020), and Romero and Moisés (2020). It was possible to point out that, in other countries, legalization occurred through law despite repeated resistance, accompanied by a drop in mortality, while in Brazil there is no legislative environment favorable to this 1 Mestranda em Direito Constitucional pela Universidade de Fortaleza. Pós-graduada em Direito Penal e Processual Penal pelo Instituto de Educação Superior Raimundo Sá. Graduada em Direito pelo Instituto de Educação Superior Raimundo Sá.