1. ABORTION IN BRAZIL: IMPACTS OF ILLEGALITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH
- Author
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Vanessa Cruz Santos, Karla Ferraz dos Anjos, Raquel Souzas, and Benedito Gonçalves Eugênio
- Subjects
Family Planning ,Women's Health ,Induced Abortion ,Public Health. ,Medicine ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Abortion in Brazil provides public health impacts, mainly due to the high rate of maternal morbidity and mortality, because it most often occurs in an illegal practice and / or unsafe, because of the illegality of abortion in certain situations in the country. Therefore, it is an issue that refers to the various reflections, such as legal, moral, cultural, socio-economic and bioethical. Given the above, the study aims to address about abortion in Brazil and the impacts of illegality in public health. Study of literature review, descriptive and discursive, held in the database SciELO sites and governmental and non-governmental organizations. It was evident that the illegality of abortion in Brazil is harmful to the health of women who resort to unsafe practices and / or illegal, a violation of human rights, the women’s autonomy, as well as providing public health impacts, and sometimes this actually happens because the deficit in quality of care, specifically to sexual and reproductive health, as the actions of Family Planning. It is considered that the way of abortion in Brazil requires modifications, especially with regard to legislative and bioethics conflicts.
- Published
- 2013