The discourses of knowledge / power around abortion and the bill of decriminalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in Chile

Authors

  • Lorena Denisse Etcheberry Rojas Universidad de Chile; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Abstract

The article that we present below is the product of reflections related to my PhD thesis , focusing on abortion in Chile. Based in the Chilean experience I present theLatin American panorama abouta bortion and then move onto the theoretical perspective from which I build the problem, presenting a section on women's biopolitics, governmentality and autonomy; finally, taking the above as a backdrop, I refer to the project of the Chilean law of decriminalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three causes, making an analysis of the process that has become in the recent enactment of the law, with the objective of investigating about the political discourses that are installed in the bill to analyze how autonomy is being conceived, and the dignity life of girls and women in these contexts.

Keywords:

Body, autonomy, dignifiedlife, sexual and reproductiverights