The Abortion Market in Costa Rica in Historical Perspective (1900-2020). A Preliminary Approach
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publikationsdatum: | 2020 |
| Beschreibung: | This article analyzes the conditions that enabled the development of a clandestine abortion market in Costa Rica and how it functioned in the period 1900-2020. It also considers the characteristics of this market, in particular the differentiated access to medical services according to the social origin of the women who aborted. In addition, it studies the key controversies that arisen in the country regarding the practice of artificial termination of pregnancy and the proposals to legalize said procedure. |
| Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Sprache: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/42028 |
| Online Zugang: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/42028 |
| Stichwort: | Costa Rica; abortion; women; public health; maternity; sexuality; class; gender Costa Rica; aborto; mujeres; salud pública; maternidad; sexualidad clase; género |