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GOMEZ GARCIA, Irazú. Among Biopolitics, the Invention of the Maternity and Gender. Abortion in Chiapas. Península [online]. 2023, vol.18, n.1, pp.9-33.  Epub 23-Abr-2024. ISSN 1870-5766.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cephcis.25942743e.2023.18.1.84254.

In this article I identify some of the limitations that women face when deciding to interrupt a pregnancy in Chiapas. As a starting point, I base myself on the analysis of three legal procedures carried out between the seventies and nineties, for the crime of abortion to the detriment of society, in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. I study the way in which the biopolitical deployment of gender established logics of domination in the files reviewed from the model of long-term historical analysis (Braudel 1970). The inequalities, indicated for the defendants, were placed in the fields of justice, health, and in their personal relationships ambit. Finally, I consider some of the factors of the current context that continue affecting the possibility of decriminalization, beyond the permanence of a gender biopolitics, as well as women’s reproductive autonomy at the local level.

Palavras-chave : abortion; criminalization; Chiapas; women; health.