The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America

Ramírez, Gabriela Arguedas; Morgan, Lynn M.

doi:10.15767/feministstudies.43.2.0423

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“…Complex transnational anti-reproductive justice coalitions have formed over the last 50 years, but the heart of their efforts has been situated in the United States since the 1970s. 3 For example, US-based antiabortion groups such as Heartbeat International support "crisis pregnancy centers" (facilities purporting to offer reproductive healthcare but run by anti-abortion activists seeking to pressure women out of abortions) in many countries in Africa and Latin America. 4 US conservative groups like Heartbeat International, the Federalist Society, and Focus on the Family spent around US $28m aiding anti-abortion and anti-LGBT organizations in several European, African, and Latin American countries between 2016 and 2019.…”

Section: Global Salience Of Dobbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Global Feminist Solidarity in the Post-Roe Era

Arguedas-Ramírez,

Wenner

2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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The global impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the backlash towards reproductive justice that it represents warrant a global feminist response informed by broad theoretical and geopolitical lenses. We consider how a solidaristic, transnational feminist movement might learn from Latin American feminist movements that have been successful in uniting broad coalitions in the fight for reproductive justice as situated within far-reaching political goals. The success of such a global movement must be decolonial and must contend with the fact that overlapping realities of global inequality, severe poverty, extractivism, and western-backed violence are fundamentally implicated in reproductive justice.

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Section: Global Salience Of Dobbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Global Feminist Solidarity in the Post-Roe Era

Arguedas-Ramírez,

Wenner

2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…Even though provoking an abortion is “a grave crime,” he said, they wanted judges to have the discretion to sentence women to medical or psychological treatment instead of jail time. “We, the citizens of Jalisco,” he said, “are not opposed to the rights of women.” These words offer insight into an ideology that positions women as victims of abortion and pro‐life activists as their paternalistic allies and saviors (see Arguedas Ramírez and Morgan ).…”

Section: Mexico At the Epicentermentioning

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Miss Mexico's Dress: The Struggle over Reproductive Governance in Jalisco, Mexico

Morgan

2019

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Cuando surgió una controversia sobre el diseño del vestido de Miss México en 2007, no quedó claro de inmediato cómo la disputa estaba relacionada con la política del aborto. Este artículo analiza el vestido ‐un himno a la rebelión Cristera que tuvo lugar en el centro‐occidente de México desde 1926‐29‐ como parte de un esfuerzo concertado de parte de activistas católicos en Jalisco para revivir los recuerdos de la rebelión Cristera y enmarcar la legalización del aborto en la Ciudad de México como otro capítulo de una larga historia de persecución religiosa. El aborto, argumento, es un vehículo a través del cual las distinciones entre el gobierno secular y el religioso se constituyen en el México postpriísta. La importancia del vestido de Miss México muestra cómo las tensiones clericales y anticlericales llegaron a centrarse en las disputas sobre los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, y cómo la gobernanza reproductiva en México se basa en tensiones entre tendencias secularistas y religiosas. [México, políticas de género, iglesia católica, derechos reproductivos, Cristiada]

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Cross‐Border Travel for Reproductive Health

Mishtal

Zordo

2021

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

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Abortion travel across national borders is a significant phenomenon in Europe and elsewhere around the world. The fragmented international reproductive policy landscape means that access to abortion care varies substantially between countries. Regional differences in access to services may also fuel in‐country travel for abortion care. A growing body of debates and research examining reproductive rights and access to abortion care reveals that women and pregnant people seek abortion abroad because of legal, socio‐economic and administrative barriers to the service in their country of residence. The impacts of these policy restrictions are numerous for people seeking care abroad, including distress when faced with inadequate healthcare system at home, and the hardships of travel abroad and navigating foreign health structures. Ethical implications of fragmented and restrictive abortion policies include the perpetuation of the stratification of care based on gender, citizenship, class, legal documentation status and other forms of inequalities. Key Concepts Cross‐border reproductive care includes travel for abortion services. Reproductive rights and policies vary between countries, thereby creating a fragmented policy landscape in which access to abortion care varies significantly. Women and pregnant people travel abroad for abortion services when they are unable to obtain them in their country of residence. Barriers to abortion access include gestational age limits, mandatory waiting period, mandatory counselling, health professionals' refusal of care citing conscience‐based objection, abortion stigma and financial resources. The fact that women and pregnant people have to travel internationally for this essential health care is problematic from ethical, social and political perspectives. States should consider liberalising their reproductive rights in order to guarantee abortion care to their citizens and residents.

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The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America

Cited by 11 publications

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Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Global Feminist Solidarity in the Post-Roe Era

Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Global Feminist Solidarity in the Post-Roe Era

Miss Mexico's Dress: The Struggle over Reproductive Governance in Jalisco, Mexico

Cross‐Border Travel for Reproductive Health

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