{"title":"El derecho al aborto electivo en Chiapas, México","authors":"Marta Wójtowicz-Wcisło","doi":"10.32992/erlacs.10526","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The right to elective abortion in Chiapas, Mexico This article tackles the issue of voluntary termination of pregnancy in the case of Chiapas, the state in which in 1990 the government decriminalised abortion for family planning pur-poses, a measure without precedent at national scale. Applying an interdisciplinary focus, the article examines changes in a state law, crucial actors’ positions and Mayan communi-ties’ norms in order to consider a possibility of overcoming social antagonism related to legality of voluntary termination of pregnancy. Resumen El presente articulo aborda la cuestion de la terminacion voluntaria del embarazo en el caso de Chiapas, Mexico, donde en 1990 el gobierno estatal aprobo una medida sin precedentes a nivel nacional al despenalizar el aborto por razones de planificacion familiar. Desde un en-foque interdisciplinar integral se estudian cambios en la norma legal estatal, posicionamien-tos de diversos actores, asi como normatividades presentes en las comunidades mayas de los Altos de Chiapas, con el objetivo de responder a la pregunta sobre la posibilidad de superar el antagonismo social que existe acerca de la licitud de la terminacion voluntaria del emba-razo.","PeriodicalId":52452,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32992/erlacs.10526","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: The right to elective abortion in Chiapas, Mexico This article tackles the issue of voluntary termination of pregnancy in the case of Chiapas, the state in which in 1990 the government decriminalised abortion for family planning pur-poses, a measure without precedent at national scale. Applying an interdisciplinary focus, the article examines changes in a state law, crucial actors’ positions and Mayan communi-ties’ norms in order to consider a possibility of overcoming social antagonism related to legality of voluntary termination of pregnancy. Resumen El presente articulo aborda la cuestion de la terminacion voluntaria del embarazo en el caso de Chiapas, Mexico, donde en 1990 el gobierno estatal aprobo una medida sin precedentes a nivel nacional al despenalizar el aborto por razones de planificacion familiar. Desde un en-foque interdisciplinar integral se estudian cambios en la norma legal estatal, posicionamien-tos de diversos actores, asi como normatividades presentes en las comunidades mayas de los Altos de Chiapas, con el objetivo de responder a la pregunta sobre la posibilidad de superar el antagonismo social que existe acerca de la licitud de la terminacion voluntaria del emba-razo.