Governing Abortion By Standards. Abortion Policies In Brazil Since The Late 1980s
Brazil is one of the few countries with restrictive abortion laws to have implemented specialized hospital services to attend patients eligible for non-criminal abortion. Studying the regulation process which accompanied the implementation of these services from the late 1980s onward, the present ar...
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e-cadernos CES
2014
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Brazil is one of the few countries with restrictive abortion laws to have implemented specialized hospital services to attend patients eligible for non-criminal abortion. Studying the regulation process which accompanied the implementation of these services from the late 1980s onward, the present article describes the emergence of a “government by standards” applied to legal as well as clandestine situations of abortion. |
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