O cerceamento ao aborto legal à meninas de até 14 anos no Centro-Oeste (2019 - 2024): hospitais públicos e poder legislativo

Abstract

Rape of a vulnerable person is an epidemic throughout the national territory, and consequently, pregnancies in adolescence and childhood are a reality, which is why abortion, as a right to reproductive freedom, should be guaranteed by the State; however, the public apparatus has served to curtail these girls’ rights. This dissertation aims to comprehend how the State has systematically attempted to violate the right to legal abortion, mainly in the Central-West region of Brazil. Using a hypothetical deductive approach through a structuralist procedure, qualitative research made it possible to survey the number of rapes that occurred between 2019 and 2024 in the region; identify which facilities claimed to perform legal abortions but did not, along with the criteria being imposed on the girls; quantify how many legislative bills addressed abortion at the national and sub-national levels; and investigate the possible motivations behind the attack on abortion in Brazil over the last decade. Lastly, the denial of abortion is rooted in a neoconservatism that is infiltrating legislation and medical practices, resulting in restrictions on the rights to freedom, secularism, and equality.