IDEJUS   26001
INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE DERECHO, JUSTICIA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Disputes over abortion during the Argentinian Constitutional Reform (1994) Emerging juridical matrix
Autor/es:
MARÍA EUGENIA MONTE
Lugar:
Bangkok
Reunión:
Congreso; XI IASSCS International Conference. Breaking Boundaries: Sexuality, Gender, Reproduction, Health and Rights; 2017
Resumen:
In 1994, shortly before the Argentinian Constitutional Reform, President Carlos Menem proposed to incorporate into the National Constitution a clause to protect life since the moment of conception. After this proposal, the abortion entered the political agenda and became one of the points of debate during the Constitutional Convention. Non-governmental organizations, such as the ultra-Catholic organization Tradition, Family and Property, articulated with the Catholic hierarchy in order to influence the debates of the Convention in favor of the proposal while the Self Convened Assembly of Women to Decide in Freedom (MADEL) -conformed by civil society organizations and supported by women involved in the reform as Conventionalists- resisted it. Public debates on abortion occupied a space in the media and directly impacted on the debates at the sessions of the Convention -for example, the statements of the minister of the Catholic Church Antonio Quarracino.This paper explores disputes over abortion during the Constitutional Reform assuming that juridical discourses are an institutionalized site of political struggles through which a juridical matrix on abortion is configured. Precisely, this paper analyses how a juridical matrix on abortion is discursively configured in the Argentinian Constitutional Reform of 1994. The method used to analyze this is the discourse analysis of the documents produced during the sessions of the Constitutional Convention from 30 May to 22 August 1994.The idea that guides this paper is that during the 1994 Constitutional Reform a juridical matrix on abortion emerged, and which, with displacements immediately related to the following international events, had material effects on juridical conflicts over abortion regulation that are situated at Courts after 2000s.