Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Jun 2022)
Abortion is law!
Abstract
To finish one of the most dramatic year humanity lives, December 30th 2020, the Argentine National Senate approved the voluntary interruption of pregnancy law. The dispute of abortion legalization is part of the women´s struggles all along the history and constitutes today the most important inflection point of the green wave. In the long process of human emancipation, there are two concatenated processes: show life and work women conditions, together with the conquest of new rights that allow juridical equality. This phenomenon spotlight people struggles and particularly, women struggles, and the way popular demands become laws. In this paper, we propose to analyze this contradiction between social fights and political conquests, trying to recover the history of the abortion law. We recuperate some ideas about this historical victory, to try to make a contribution that allows us to find some historical lessons about people from Nuestramérica, its fights and its sparks. Women and their multiple roles in society had a maternal reification during centuries that turned invisible, on one side, their work (wage and domestic labor), but also all desire: activism, sexuality without reproductive purposes, art, communitarian socialization, etc. Women always have worked, whether they pay us or not, they accept it or not.
