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- Title
STRUCTURAL RACISM AND THE CRIMINALISATION OF ABORTION IN BRAZIL.
- Authors
Müller Drumond Casseres, Lívia Miranda
- Abstract
The reflections here expressed aim at further investigating the arguments presented by the Rio de Janeiro State Public Defender's Office to the Federal Supreme Court, in the Claim of Breach of Fundamental Precept, number 442, in which the constitutionality of two types of crime are discussed: induced or consented abortion practiced by the pregnant woman and the consented abortion practiced by third parties, with the consent of the pregnant woman (articles 124 and 126 of the Brazilian Penal Code). This paper sustains that the criminalisation of abortion represents a death policy for black women. On this basis, the research defends that racism and the anti-racist dimension of the principle of equality are regarded as the central analytical keys to solving the constitutional controversy.
- Subjects
INSTITUTIONAL racism; ABORTION laws; PREGNANT women; INDIRECT discrimination; BLACK women
- Publication
Sur: International Journal on Human Rights / Revista Internacional de Direitos Humanos, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 28, p77
- ISSN
1806-6445
- Publication type
Article