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VASCONCELOS, Joyce; VIEIRA, Grasielle  e  ESPINOZA, Fran. Abortion in the context of the feminist movement: comparing Brazil and Uruguay. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2020, vol.53, n.159, pp.1269-1300.  Epub 21-Jan-2022. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2020.159.15806.

This article intends to carry out a comparative study on abortion in Brazil and Uruguay, from the perspective of the feminist movement. In this sense, the choice of the countries highlighted for the proposed study is related to the idea of comparing the performance of the feminist movement in both, in order to evaluate the consequence of such performance in the position that each country adopts regarding the legal and social permissiveness of abortion. The countries elected for the comparison end up approaching from the point of view of the territorial disputes that involved their respective colonizers, which makes the research possible, because although the comparative study is based, above all, on the study of diversities, two situations that are neither absolutely different nor entirely identical are compared. The hypothesis tested is the following: the way Brazil and Uruguay view abortion has a direct connection with the difference in the performance of the feminist movements of the two countries. The method chosen for the construction of the article was the bibliographical research, since the division of the text ends up dialoguing with this method, based on the general objective of understanding the evolution of what has already been published regarding the permissiveness of abortion, in the context of the feminist movement’s work in Brazil and Uruguay. In the final considerations the introductory proposal of the article is taken up again, reaching the conclusion that the hypothesis raised is partially true, bearing in mind that the dynamics of social movements normally act with the resistance of counter-movements, and, in the specific case of the countries collated, their historical formation and the degree of secularization of each one strongly influenced the attendance or not of the feminist demand for the permissiveness of abortion. With this, not necessarily the difference as to the performance of the feminist movement in the two countries is what characterizes the diametrically opposed understanding that they adopt regarding the permissiveness of abortion.

Palavras-chave : abortion; Brazil; feminist movement; social movements; Uruguay.