Da luta por aborto legal a uma ética do risco: o acompanhamento feminista ao aborto no contexto das lutas decoloniais por justiça reprodutiva

Resumen

In this paper, I seek to situate the emergence of a dispositif of feminist accompaniment of abortion
within a complex strategic situation, in which multiple power relations are codified to give rise to
the current set of narratives and policies on sexuality and reproduction. Inspired by the
Foucauldian analytics of power proposal, I sought to observe some of the ways in which the
dispositif of accompaniment unravels and challenges dispositifs of sexuality, maternity, raciality
and coloniality operated by biopower in the neoliberal context. To do so, I carried out a multi-sited
ethnography of abortion companions’ collectives in Latin America and the Caribbean between
2016 and 2021. I argue that, by positioning abortion accompaniment as a collective political act of
direct action, feminist companions build alternative forms of activism for reproductive justice,
beyond the struggles for the legalization of abortion or harm reduction policies. The reflections
hereby presented emerge from a set of narratives that are transformed and lived out in the varied
experiences of resistance of abortion companions, for whom abortion is a political act and so is
accompanying.