The unconstitutional thing state at the legal abortion access scenario in Brazil

Abstract

This paper analyzes the existing scenario in Brazil to ensure access to legal abortion for women who have the right to perform it. It seeks to identify whether the infrastructure and information framework available to realize this right, as well as whether the number of women who are not served annually would constitute the unconstitutional state of affairs institute. To this end, we investigated the data on legal and unsafe abortion in Brazil obtained by the group “Catholic for the Right to Decide”, “Article 19”, researcher Débora Diniz and released by the Ministry of Health. Sociological, bibliographical, qualitative, using deductive reasoning. In the end it is concluded that the perennial precariousness or complete lack of public health infrastructure available to promote access to legal and safe abortion, as well as the lack of information on the sexual and reproductive rights of women by the official health bodies configures the unconstitutional state of affairs and two suggestions are made to reverse this picture.

KEYWORDS: Legal abortion; Sexual and reproductive rights; Unconstitutional state of affairs.