Abortion: a discussion that goes beyond conservative and progressive stances

Abstract

The study approached abortion, to overcome the confrontations between conservative and progressive positions that tend to emerge on the subject and that do not allow us to appreciate the socio-legal complexity of the phenomenon and, the challenges that it continues to pose in the design of public policies. To this end, the objective was to systematically identify the influence of these positions on the elaboration and implementation of public policies on women's rights. Thus, from a qualitative approach, of a basic type and with a grounded theory design, the main thesis is that an interdisciplinary and human rights perspective on abortion, an issue that goes beyond the legal and opens a philosophical and ethical discussion, contributes to understand the operators of the law, its level of complexity in each particular case, overcoming subjectivity, stigmatization, passion and moralism that, do not allow a healthy and reasonable criticism of the issue in question. We conclude by pointing out that any discussion on the right to life and the right to decide, with all its implications, must be contextualized, participatory, critical and transversal to the disciplines that contribute to its understanding and approach.