{"id":4791,"date":"2022-05-02T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/news-and-stories\/latin-america-dreams-the-impossible\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:07:54","slug":"latin-america-dreams-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/latin-america-dreams-the-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Derecho al aborto: Am\u00e9rica Latina sue\u00f1a lo imposible"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4791","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-news","article_format-news","issue_tax-legal-abortion","issue_legacy-abortion","location-latin-america"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"article_type":26,"article_format":171,"authors":"","add_button":false,"button_type":"link","button":"","download":"","download_button_text":"","featured_image":3648},"sidebar":{"issues":{"title":"Cuestiones prioritarias","issues":[34]},"locations":{"title":"Ubicaci\u00f3n","locations":[161]},"partners":{"title":"Socios","partners":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_article","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_hero_article":{"":null,"anchor_id":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"La directora ejecutiva de F\u00f2s Feminista, Giselle Carino, pronunci\u00f3 las siguientes palabras durante un foro organizado por el Centro de Derechos Reproductivos en enero de 2022. <\/em>\n\nBuenos d\u00edas y buenas tardes a todos. Es un placer participar hoy en esta conversaci\u00f3n. Agradezco a Rebecca Brown por la invitaci\u00f3n, y tambi\u00e9n a mis colegas Nancy, el Dr. T y la profesora Michele por este di\u00e1logo tan importante. Como directora ejecutiva de F\u00f2s Feminista, hoy hablo aqu\u00ed desde la experiencia compartida con otras activistas de la salud, los derechos y la justicia sexuales y reproductivos de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe, y del Sur Global.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nSeguimos las noticias sobre los retrocesos y los riesgos para las garant\u00edas constitucionales del derecho al aborto en Estados Unidos no solo con preocupaci\u00f3n por el impacto global que supone la p\u00e9rdida de un precedente legal hist\u00f3rico, sino tambi\u00e9n con gran solidaridad, especialmente hacia las mujeres y las ni\u00f1as m\u00e1s afectadas en el acceso a las necesidades b\u00e1sicas de salud sexual y reproductiva, en particular las que son negras, j\u00f3venes o pobres. Nuestra solidaridad proviene de la experiencia concreta de conectar nuestras opresiones.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nThe historical moment we are living in is framed by contagion, not only in pandemics: the advance of anti-rights and anti-gender agenda in the United States not only influences the advance of authoritarianism in the Global South, but feeds back into it. This global scenario of growing anti-gender politics, which is sophisticated in its use of the language of rights and the supposed protection of women, families, and children, is part of what has made it possible to get to this point in the threat to Roe v. Wade. While the Trump Administration was consolidating an anti-rights Supreme Court, Bolsonaro's Brazil was also signing on to anti-gender foreign policy, and the offensive in Poland that reinstated a near-total ban on abortion was advancing.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nIt is possible to tell the story of this moment of attacks on abortion rights in the United States as a domestic dispute between Republicans and Democrats for more than half a century, and one that will impact the whole world because of the geopolitical position of the United States. But that domestic, power-based view of this country is, while true, incomplete. Feminist solidarity is more than a value for transformation from the local to the global; it is a new way of understanding that transformations and resistances are interconnected by the system of permanent contagion. If, on the one hand, we have against us what is called \"gender ideology\", as an example of the fanatism of our time on a global scale, on the other hand, we have in our favor the growing feminist movements with different compositions and with the vigor of the new generations, as seen in Argentina or Chile. It is only with a strong civil society from feminism that we are prepared to respond and resist the attacks that, unlike in the past, are much more globally interconnected.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nPor lo tanto, mi objetivo hoy es defender la importancia de la articulaci\u00f3n con el Sur Global en este momento de lucha por los derechos al aborto en Estados Unidos. Y aqu\u00ed es importante se\u00f1alar que, en tiempos tan dif\u00edciles de autoritarismo antig\u00e9nero, COVID-19 y crecientes desigualdades, en Am\u00e9rica Latina hemos logrado victorias hist\u00f3ricas en la lucha por los derechos al aborto. Por lo tanto, creo que el contagio feminista tambi\u00e9n es posible, y es nuestra misi\u00f3n.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nEn F\u00f2s Feminista, entendemos que este es un momento para fortalecer alianzas, pensar juntas y reforzar los caminos de solidaridad. Por eso comparto hoy algunas lecciones aprendidas sobre la lucha por los derechos al aborto en dos \u00e1mbitos:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n
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  1. We know how much the internal politics of this country impacts the Global South. We know it with the effects of the Global Gag Rule. I don't think I need to prove to this audience how much the domestic politics of this country is also global politics.<\/span><\/li>\n \t
  2. A diferencia del pasado, cuando la propagaci\u00f3n de ideas iba de norte a sur, el nuevo orden de conexi\u00f3n moral es multidireccional. Va de sur a sur, de sur a norte, es decir, en m\u00faltiples direcciones. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 es esto importante? Porque aqu\u00ed reside la esperanza feminista de transformaci\u00f3n: en la permanencia de los movimientos feministas en todas partes y en la interconexi\u00f3n entre ellos.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nTodos sabemos lo que es la Ley Mordaza Global. Desde la d\u00e9cada de 1980, cada vez que un presidente republicano asume el cargo en Estados Unidos, se restablece la prohibici\u00f3n de conceder ayuda internacional en materia de planificaci\u00f3n familiar y salud reproductiva a organizaciones extranjeras que est\u00e9n involucradas de alguna manera con el aborto, incluso si lo hacen con fondos no estadounidenses y aunque la legislaci\u00f3n estadounidense lo permita.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nThe Trump Administration's version of the Global Gag Rule went further in its anti-gender authoritarianism because it extended restrictions on maternal and child health care, nutrition, HIV\/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, infectious diseases, and water, sanitation, and hygiene programs, creating disruptions with long-term impacts on affected national health systems.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nIt has been a year since the Biden Administration repealed the latest version of the policy, but there has not yet been a permanent repeal, and its harms are structural, creating the opposite of the desired effect of \"reducing abortions\". The defunding of organizations and networks providing sexual and reproductive health services, including access to contraceptives and sexual information and education leads to an increase in unwanted pregnancies and thus abortions, which in turn become more unsafe. Professor Yana Rodgers' research using data from 2001 to 2008 showed that women in Latin America were three times more likely to have an abortion while the Global Gag Rule was in effect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u00bfC\u00f3mo pudimos resistirnos a la Ley Mordaza Global, documentar y denunciar sus impactos y la naturalizaci\u00f3n del uso de los cuerpos y las vidas de las mujeres y las ni\u00f1as del Sur Global como campos de batalla imperialistas? Este es el trabajo incansable de la sociedad civil y los movimientos feministas.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nNo es posible resistir ni avanzar en la defensa global de la salud, los derechos y la justicia sexuales y reproductivos sin la resiliencia creativa de los movimientos feministas, que por lo tanto deben recibir apoyo y financiaci\u00f3n continuos. Se trata de una labor laboriosa y constante, sin resultados inmediatos en t\u00e9rminos de m\u00e9tricas de \u00e9xito, es decir, sin cambios inmediatos para los donantes del Norte. Las recientes experiencias de avances en la legalizaci\u00f3n del aborto en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe, consideradas sorprendentes por muchos, son prueba de ello.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nLa Ola Verde \u201ccontagi\u00f3\u201d a la regi\u00f3n. En los \u00faltimos dos a\u00f1os hemos sido testigos de importantes avances en un momento pol\u00edtico que parecer\u00eda ser uno de los m\u00e1s desfavorables, durante la pandemia de Covid-19, pero estos cambios no se produjeron de la noche a la ma\u00f1ana. Son el resultado de una resistencia feminista local y continua. Podemos pensar en breves ejemplos en Argentina, M\u00e9xico y Colombia:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n
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    • A finales de 2020, el Congreso de Argentina aprob\u00f3 la legalizaci\u00f3n del aborto hasta las 12 semanas de embarazo. Esta victoria en un pa\u00eds cat\u00f3lico con una econom\u00eda debilitada se debi\u00f3 a la capacidad de los movimientos sociales, que trabajaron en articulaci\u00f3n durante casi dos d\u00e9cadas, para generar una solidaridad expansiva, para hablar no solo con los feminismos, sino tambi\u00e9n con los profesionales de la salud, con los grupos religiosos progresistas, con los periodistas y comunicadores que llevaron el tema a otras audiencias y otras partes del pa\u00eds.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • En 2021, varios estados mexicanos hicieron lo mismo que Argentina, y en septiembre la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Naci\u00f3n declar\u00f3 inconstitucional la penalizaci\u00f3n del aborto en el pa\u00eds. En respuesta a las recientes restricciones al aborto impuestas en Texas, las activistas mexicanas ya est\u00e1n promoviendo estrategias de solidaridad en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y M\u00e9xico para garantizar que las mujeres y ni\u00f1as estadounidenses tengan acceso al aborto m\u00e9dico con acompa\u00f1amiento feminista. Este es un ejemplo del poder de la interconexi\u00f3n feminista. Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe siguen siendo la regi\u00f3n con algunas de las leyes sobre el aborto m\u00e1s restrictivas del mundo, pero el descubrimiento del aborto con misoprostol en la regi\u00f3n est\u00e1 aumentando la seguridad del aborto y cambiando las estrategias de defensa.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • In 2021, Colombia's Constitutional Court advanced a case that may lead to the elimination of the crime of abortion from the country's penal code. This is a very sophisticated legal path - a scenario in which abortion has nothing to do with crime, police, or criminal justice, but is treated exclusively as a health issue. How did that debate progress? It was not because of the genius of great legal minds, but because of the work of Colombian feminist movements that demonstrated that, although there are far fewer legal restrictions on abortion in the country since a 2006 constitutional decision, that did not translate into more access for the people who need it most. There is another feminist learning here: legal or constitutional protections for abortion rights are part of the struggle, but they do not offer a guarantee of implementation or access; that is a long-term job that requires ongoing involvement of feminist movements.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTodos estos avances, que tal vez hace una d\u00e9cada hubieran sido impensables, se lograron gracias a a\u00f1os de movilizaci\u00f3n feminista y al poder del contagio, de la interconexi\u00f3n entre movimientos.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nComo organizaciones internacionales, movimientos y donantes con poder y responsabilidad, debemos actuar de manera solidaria, resistiendo los intentos de establecer un orden de transformaci\u00f3n necesario, como si el cambio pol\u00edtico se produjera en procesos lineales o siguiendo modelos te\u00f3ricos. La fuerza feminista para la transformaci\u00f3n proviene de la interconexi\u00f3n de los movimientos, y es nuestro deber luchar para garantizarles consistencia en el apoyo, la financiaci\u00f3n y las oportunidades de conexi\u00f3n y \u201ccontagio\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>","":null,"anchor_id":""}}]},"yoast_head":"\nAbortion rights: Latin America dreams the impossible - F\u00f2s Feminista<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"F\u00f2s Feminista CEO, Giselle Carino, engaged in a dialogue about sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice in the Global South.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/latin-america-dreams-the-impossible\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abortion rights: Latin America dreams the impossible - 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