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