{"id":4798,"date":"2022-06-15T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T01:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/news-and-stories\/abortion-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:07:54","slug":"abortion-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/pt\/news-and-stories\/abortion-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Um passo gigante para o aborto legal no Qu\u00eania"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4798","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-news","article_format-news","issue_tax-legal-abortion","issue_legacy-abortion","location-kenya"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"article_type":26,"article_format":171,"authors":"","add_button":false,"button_type":"link","button":"","download":"","download_button_text":"","featured_image":3630},"sidebar":{"issues":{"title":"Quest\u00f5es priorit\u00e1rias","issues":[34]},"locations":{"title":"Localiza\u00e7\u00e3o","locations":[152]},"partners":{"title":"Parceiros","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":"<span data-contrast=\"auto\">A aten\u00e7\u00e3o do mundo se voltou para as hist\u00f3ricas vit\u00f3rias que os defensores do aborto t\u00eam alcan\u00e7ado. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.orgmedia\/latin-america-dreams-the-impossible\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">na Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> nos \u00faltimos anos, mas n\u00e3o \u00e9 a \u00fanica regi\u00e3o que tem visto avan\u00e7os. Recentemente, no Qu\u00eania, uma decis\u00e3o judicial mostrou que o lit\u00edgio estrat\u00e9gico tamb\u00e9m est\u00e1 trazendo progresso para a justi\u00e7a reprodutiva na \u00c1frica.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Em mar\u00e7o de 2022, um Tribunal Superior em Malindi declarou ilegais pris\u00f5es e processos relacionados ao aborto, concluindo que o cuidado com o aborto era um direito fundamental sob a Constitui\u00e7\u00e3o. O tribunal acrescentou que proteger o acesso ao aborto afeta valores constitucionais vitais, incluindo dignidade, autonomia, igualdade e integridade corporal.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">O aborto no Qu\u00eania \u00e9 legal sob certas exce\u00e7\u00f5es, incluindo risco \u00e0 vida ou sa\u00fade da mulher e estupro. Organiza\u00e7\u00f5es da sociedade civil defendem h\u00e1 muito tempo a expans\u00e3o dos direitos das mulheres ao aborto seguro e legal, e a decis\u00e3o recente abre uma nova oportunidade.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">A vit\u00f3ria hist\u00f3rica decidiu um caso que envolvia tanto o direito de uma menor de idade receber cuidados reprodutivos quanto o de um profissional m\u00e9dico trat\u00e1-la. Uma adolescente gr\u00e1vida procurou servi\u00e7os m\u00e9dicos em uma cl\u00ednica, onde um m\u00e9dico determinou que ela havia perdido a gravidez e lhe prestou os cuidados p\u00f3s-aborto essenciais para salvar sua vida. Ambas foram acusadas de \u201cprovocar um aborto\u201d.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cLeis e pol\u00edticas precisam deixar de criminalizar mulheres, meninas e profissionais de sa\u00fade, porque isso n\u00e3o vai impedir abortos. O governo e a sociedade precisam garantir que leis e pol\u00edticas permitam a exist\u00eancia de servi\u00e7os de sa\u00fade sexual e reprodutiva acess\u00edveis a qualquer pessoa, em vez de criminalizar as pessoas por fazerem o que precisam fazer\u201d, diz Monica Oguttu, Diretora Executiva da <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kmet.co.ke\">KMET<\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, uma organiza\u00e7\u00e3o parceira da F\u00f2s Feminista.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">KMET is based in Kisumu, the country's third largest city in western Kenya, and works to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights among marginalized populations. During the COVID pandemic, KMET implemented <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">a <strong>modelo baseado na comunidade<\/strong><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> para garantir que mulheres e meninas tivessem acesso a SRHR, incluindo aborto seguro. A organiza\u00e7\u00e3o tamb\u00e9m implementou um projeto para eliminar o estigma em torno do aborto, que representa uma barreira para mulheres e meninas que desejam interromper suas gesta\u00e7\u00f5es.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cPrecisamos garantir que todos os prestadores de sa\u00fade reprodutiva no pa\u00eds estejam cientes da recente decis\u00e3o e treinados para implementar uma Pol\u00edtica Abrangente de Sa\u00fade Reprodutiva que est\u00e1 em revis\u00e3o agora. Defenderemos o desenvolvimento de uma boa pol\u00edtica e, em seguida, sua implementa\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d, diz Jedidah Maina, Diretora Executiva da organiza\u00e7\u00e3o parceira da F\u00f2s Feminista., <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticahealth.org\">TICAH<\/a>.\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">TICAH liderou diferentes <\/span><strong>estrat\u00e9gias para o fortalecimento da comunidade<\/strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> em \u00e1reas de baixa renda do pa\u00eds para promover os DSSR e melhorar a sa\u00fade e o bem-estar de mulheres e meninas. A KMET, a TICAH e outras organiza\u00e7\u00f5es da sociedade civil est\u00e3o unindo for\u00e7as para garantir que o Qu\u00eania e outros pa\u00edses da \u00c1frica Oriental tenham um futuro mais feminista.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Enquanto ativistas pelos direitos ao aborto sofreram reveses nos Estados Unidos, outros pa\u00edses demonstram que ativistas feministas est\u00e3o impulsionando mudan\u00e7as para avan\u00e7ar a autonomia corporal. O movimento pelo aborto seguro e legal alcan\u00e7ou todos os cantos do mundo. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>","":null,"anchor_id":""}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A giant step for legal abortion in Kenya - F\u00f2s Feminista<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Civil society organizations in Kenya have long advocated to expand safe and legal abortion and the recent ruling opens a new opportunity.\u00a0\" \/>\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\/pt\/news-and-stories\/abortion-in-kenya\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_BR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A giant step for legal abortion in Kenya - 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