Group interview on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VTP). Conversation with Mariela Lario, Ruth Zurbriggen, María Teresa Bosio, Patricia Rosemberg and José Mantaras

Abstract

The struggle for the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy -whose legalization brings us face to face with new challenges and new ways of continuing and extending all the actions of education, accompaniment, information and promotion that have led to the sanction of the Law- has had a collective elaboration that in the last years
has become one of the most powerful demands of various feminist movements.
This path has been forged in different spaces: the streets, daily life, institutions, assuming what health implies not only as a right, but also as a field of dispute of representations, ideas and practices that weave personal issues with social and public interest issues.
From the slogan "my body is mine" and the proposal of unsafe abortions as a public health problem, it has been discussed the visibility of an ancestral practice and the way in which the State should recognize this right.
the way in which the State should recognize this personal right, which is political, assuming it as part of the right to health and guaranteeing the right to health.
part of the right to health and guaranteeing it for pregnant women.
A few months after the approval of Law 27.610 in Argentina, we invited referents with different
different militancy trajectories in relation to the Campaign for Legal Abortion, to share in a collective interview their perspectives on the
their perspectives about the social dimension of this right and its link with a collective project of
and its link with a collective health project, pointing out the challenges and demands that this new stage poses to the
This new stage poses to the different public institutions (health, education, justice) and particularly to the public university.