Women's decision? The political institutional debate concerning abortion during the post-dictatorship period in Chile (1989-2015)

Abstract

This article proposes theoretical guidelines to analyze the background of the political debate surrounding abortion in the post-dictatorship period in Chile, during the first twenty years after the end of it. Gender roles, woman's sexuality and the interpretation of the body are issues which deepen the understanding of the social problem that affects women in our country, who daily deal with a socially and historically constructed system that discriminates and makes them invisible as subjects. This is reflected in the views and arguments issued by the political class in a topic that concerns only women and their bodies, but which insists on analyzing the topics mentioned without including women in the discussion.