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Abortion and the use of the female body in politics: the Brazilian presidential campaign in 2010 and its current developments

The abortion issue has been in the center of discussions in the second round of the last presidential election in Brazil, which had for the first time a female candidate. The analyzes of the public discourses given during the campaign demonstrates the pressures suffered by the candidates when facing the decriminalization of abortion: religious arguments against abortion in a secular state; the treatment religious groups give to women's bodies; and the clash between the vision of female sexuality as a "territory" of political manipulation and as a prospect of sexual and reproductive rights.

Abortion; Politic; Religiosity; Sexual and Reproductive Rights


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