Abstract
Bolsonarism is defined as a neo-fascist movement whose main social base is the upper middle class. Therefore, it managed to attract part of the medical category. It includes several ideological elements that were reflected in health policy between 2019 and 2022, including antipetism/anti-communism, neoliberalism, moral conservatism, homophobia, Christian fundamentalism, scientific denialism, antifeminism, and misogyny. We sought to analyze Bolsonarism’s reflexes on policies related to women’s health and sexual and reproductive rights during this period. Through historical and monographic procedures, with a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory approach, indirect documentation and intensive direct observation were used for data collection, condensation of meaning, and hermeneutics-dialectics for its analysis. Moral conservatism and religious fundamentalism associated with anti-feminism and misogyny have marked policies aimed at women’s health and sexual and reproductive rights. We analyzed the fight of the Federal Council of Medicine against the concept of obstetric violence, the measures to hinder access to legal abortion, the difficulties for assisted reproduction, and the dismantling of the Stork Network, revealing the association between the medical profession and the Bolsonaro government.
Keywords
bolsonarism; neo-fascism; medical profession; women’s health; sexual and reproductive rights