Abstracts
Abstract
This article offers an account of obstetric violence in abortion procedures within the Mexican health-care system. Through autoethnography, the author narrates and analyzes personal experience to identify the social and political implications, as well as the intersections of gender and class present in state-funded abortion care. The importance of the topic stems from the emergence and strengthening of the feminist struggle to conquer reproductive rights both in Mexico and in other countries throughout Latin America. As a result of the autoethnographic writing, the article discusses the tension where decriminalization of abortion—an important goal for the feminist movement—doesn’t ensure that women can undergo this procedure in conditions free of violence, since abortion stigma might still prevail.
Keywords:
- abortion,
- autoethnography,
- obstetric violence,
- reproductive rights
Résumé
Cet article propose un récit de violence obstétricale lors de procédures d’avortement au sein du système de santé mexicain. Au moyen de l’auto-ethnographie, l’auteure raconte et analyse son expérience personnelle afin de déterminer les implications sociales et politiques, ainsi que les intersections de genre et de classe sociale qui existent dans les soins abortifs financés par l’État. L’importance de cette question émane de l’émergence et du raffermissement de la lutte féministe dans la conquête des droits génésiques à la fois au Mexique et dans d’autres pays d’Amérique latine. En raison de sa rédaction auto-ethnographique, cet article discute du stress qui subsiste lorsque la décriminalisation de l’avortement, un objectif primordial du mouvement féministe, ne garantit pas que les femmes subissent cette intervention dans des conditions exemptes de violence, puisque la stigmatisation entourant l’avortement pourrait toujours prévaloir.
Mots-clés :
- avortement,
- auto-ethnographie,
- droits génésiques,
- violence obstétricale
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