Legal termination of pregnancy in Mexico City. An opportunity to think about the body from physical anthropology

Abstract

Addressing women’s bodies, split between love and duty, standing among the options offered by today’s context, string key elements for understanding the legalized abortion. The descriminalization of abortion has been vital to the country’s political life, but specially for those who have access to it: women and her body as an agent of rights and subject to health care. The discourses and practices on women’s bodies, seen as a semantic network of social interactions, are at this time the space endowed with the most important regulatory policies and practices in our society. Being Legal Termination of Pregnancy (ile) immersed in one of these policies, this paper presents a theoretical proposal to address physical anthropology from the bodies of those who abort. Conceptual elements that were considered in a deeper investigation arise, but are not the subject of this substrate. Body, emotions and experiences are incorporated into the proposal to look at the ile as a process of health-disease-care in the lives of women who have experienced it.