#according to damar anyway lmao

[evilsanlang]

Wait sorry I saw ur tags on a post where u said abortion is illegal and wildly unpopular in ur country and I was curious as to where u live? If the question makes u uncomfortable u don't have to answer u have a right to privacy. I just think research into issues like these in other countries is valuable even when I don't live there.

it's no big deal, I have it on my about anyway - I'm born and raised brazilian. in brazil abortion is a crime except for a few exceptions: in the case of rape, if the mother is at risk of death and if the fetus has anencephaly. which is all well and good in theory but in practice, in 2020 there was a case where a 10-year-old got pregnant after being raped by her uncle, and while seeking for an abortion, had her story leaked to the press by evangelical cunt Damares Alves, who at the time was the minister of women, family and human rights (lmao) and publicly lamented the authorization of the abortion. christian fundamentalists went as far as to gather outside the clinic where the girl was taken to pray against the abortion (the person behind the camera is repeating "you're praying for a ten year old to give birth" and the police is clearly trying to stop them.) in 2021, a 15-year-old, also pregnant as a result of rape, had her right to abortion denied by a judge after her case was exposed on social media, and the public ministry had to intervene.

the parliament has always been rife with fundamentalists, and the evangelical church has an absurd amount of power in our politics. having a female president in the past didn't mean shit either, as Dilma Rousseff refused to even entertain the idea of a plebiscite on the matter because it's "too polarizing". which isn't surprising coming from a white woman, as the majority of deaths resulting of clandestine abortions happen among black and indigenous women.

according to this report, only 31% of brazilians favor the total legalization of abortion. however, the report itself states that the samples from brazil were collected from the more affluent (ie those with access to better education), so expect these numbers to be lower among the general population.

while countries like mexico and argentina go on to decriminalize abortion, the largest country in latin america slogs miles behind. being a feminist here is an uphill battle

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