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Abortion, Criminal Law and the Ten Thousand Women: Portraits of the Inquisition in Contemporary Brazil

In: Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development

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  • Alexandra Lopes da Costa

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The deleterious effects of the criminal law, which deals with abortion in Brazil, the restriction of reproductive rights and their impact on women's health will be the subject discussed in this chapter from an analysis of the "case of the ten thousand," as it became known the emblematic reproductive rights violation of a universe of almost ten thousand, women, occurred in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), in 2007, when a doctor's office was invaded by the police after a television report denouncing the establishment for abortion practices. This chapter discusses this paradigmatic case of violation of privacy and disrespect to reproductive health by making critical considerations about the implications of the criminalization of abortion on the physical and emotional integrity of women, highlighting the discursive contradictions between the Brazilian law and the United Nations Documents that deal with the consequences of unsafe abortion in the female population worldwide.

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  • Alexandra Lopes da Costa, 2020. "Abortion, Criminal Law and the Ten Thousand Women: Portraits of the Inquisition in Contemporary Brazil," Chapters, in: Maigul Nugmanova & Heimo Juhani Mikkola & Alexander Rozanov & Valentina V. Komleva (ed.), Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:165743
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89014
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    Keywords

    criminal law; abortion; reproductive rights; reproductive health;
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    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

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