Debates on the beginning of life and legal regulations to personhood: A feminist approach

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dc.contributor.authorAmoroso Gonçalves, Tamara
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-21T15:20:23Z
dc.date.available2024-05-21T15:20:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-20
dc.description.abstractHighly organized conservative groups have been pushing for stricter abortion laws all over the world. After the overturn of Roe vs. Wade in USA, women, feminists and health care professionals all over the world are worried about backlash in their own jurisdictions. In this scenario, while France has just changed its Constitution to include the right to legal abortions as a fundamental right; legal and feminist scholars have been debating when life starts and when legal protection from personhood starts. By discussing the case of Brazil, and taking a feminist and human rights approach, I will present how law regulates the multiple stages of life, and why such differences matter for preserving women’s access to sexual and reproductive rights. Building on previous research on this topic and from a socio-legal perspective, I will discuss challenges to legalizing abortion in Brazil; as well as lessons emerging from Brazil and other Latin American Countries in blocking conservative changes at the legal and constitutional level to protect women’s rights.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipUVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16534
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThinking Time Series
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectabortion laws
dc.subjectbeginning of life
dc.subjectlegal personhood
dc.subjectsexual and reproductive rights
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectlegal debates
dc.titleDebates on the beginning of life and legal regulations to personhood: A feminist approach
dc.typeVideo
dc.typePresentation

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