Abstract

PENAS DEFAGO, María Angélica. Abortion in El Salvador: Three Decades of Disputes Over Women’s Reproductive Autonomy. Península [online]. 2018, vol.13, n.2, pp.213-234. ISSN 1870-5766.

In 1997, in El Salvador, criminal law was reformed, establishing an absolute ban on abortion. The agenda around abortion, designed by the conservative, civil and religious actors, has impacted the reproductive policies in today’s El Salvador. Considering this scenario, the present work puts forth an analytic distinction of two moments which deter- mined the development of the abortion debate for the last thirty years: the first identified with the Penal Code and National Constitution reforms in the 1990s, and the second during the first decade of the 21st century, when an articulated feminist and women movement emerged to resist abortion’s criminalization. Both periods involve two empirically differentiated ways of understanding how debates about abortion in El Salvador have been configured.

Keywords : abortion; El Salvador; Women and Feminists Movements; ARENA; FMLN.

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