“Nem presas, nem mortas”: cotidiano de mulheres negras em atendimento pós-aborto no âmbito da política de assistência social

Abstract

This study was based on exploring the complex dynamics of gender relations in the theory of social practices, analyzing the daily life of black women in post-abortion care within the scope of the Social Assistance Policy, proposing to reflect on the context of black women who had their pregnancies interrupted by the practice of abortion. Analyzing the socio-cultural experiences in which these women are inserted. Analyzing the sociocultural experiences in which these women are inserted. Seeking to unveil the representations, their impacts and symbolization attributed to the interruption of pregnancy, in the search to understand how the confrontation of this social reality that criminalizes the subjects who experience this practice occurs. The methodological path that accentuates this work is the white, Eurocentric epistemological disobedience, with the intention of disrupting the productions of knowledge in the social sciences that the academy has proposed, which produce the invisibility of other experiences. A bibliographic research was developed that involved the articulation between several theoretical and research fields, followed by semi-structured interviews with three black women, who experienced abortion itineraries in different ways, being, 1 case of abortion due to rape; 1 case of abortion induced by a third party, without the consent of the pregnant woman; and 1 case of clandestine abortion. The proposal is to bring reflections on how the State, which is structured in patriarchy, based on social and power relations surrounded by issues of gender, race and class, criminalizes abortion. The Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) - Parteira Rufina, where this research was developed, is one of the facilities of the Social Policy of Social Assistance. This center is located in the Recôncavo Baiano, 110 km from Salvador, in the city of Conceição do Almeida – BA, a municipality strongly marked by culturally accepted conservative values, by a colonial, catholic and coronelist logic in its social relations of production and reproduction. The results achieved in this research reveal that abortion is a public health, education and social issue. Through the narratives of the interviewees, it is possible to reflect on the need to think about new care and follow up practices, also based on the specificities of black women. As well as reflecting on the construction of motherhood that reinforces gender stigmas aimed at women, through the domination of their bodies, interfering in decision-making.