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29 Sw. J. Int'l L. 309 (2023)
Abortion Rights in Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina: Movements Shaping Legal and Policy Change

handle is hein.journals/sjlta29 and id is 323 raw text is: ABORTION RIGHTS IN URUGUAY, CHILE, AND ARGENTINA: MOVEMENTS SHAPING LEGAL AND POLICY CHANGE Nayla Luz Vacarezza* I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 310 II. ABORTION RIGHTS MOVEMENTS AND LEGAL CHANGE ....... 313 II. A. Uruguay: From Harm Reduction to Legality with Guardianship.......................................................................... 317 II. B. Chile: From Total Ban to Grounds for Extreme Situations.. 322 II. C. Argentina: From Inaccessible Grounds to Legal Abortion.. 327 III. FEMINIST NETWORKS FOR SAFE ABORTION........................... 332 III A. Uruguay: Feminist Organizations Confront the Shortcomings of the Law ........................................................ 335 III B. Chile: Navigating Legal Restrictions to Expand Access ..... 338 III C. Argentina: Synergies Between the Formal Healthcare System and Feminist Organizations ....................................... 341 IV. REIMAGINING ABORTION POLITICS: HOW MOVEMENTS SHAPED LEGAL AND POLICY CHANGE......................................................... 345 A CKNOW LED GEM EN TS ............................................................................. 347 * Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an Associate Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. She also teaches Feminist Theories and Gender Studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She holds a Sociology degree and a doctoral degree in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Additionally, Dr. Vacarezza was Visiting Scholar at the University at Albany and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. As a feminist scholar and activist, Dr. Vacarezza has been involved with the abortion rights movements in Argentina and in Latin America's Southern Cone. With a transnational perspective, her scholarly work focuses on the visual, affective, and cultural aspects of this activism. She is co-editor (with Cecilia Macon and Mariela Solana) of Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Her last co-edited book (with Barbara Sutton) is Abortion and Democracy. Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Routledge, 2021). 309

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