Resumo:
This study was based on exploring the complex dynamics of gender relations in the
theory of social practices, analyzing the daily life of black women in post-abortion care
within the scope of the Social Assistance Policy, proposing to reflect on the context of
black women who had their pregnancies interrupted by the practice of abortion.
Analyzing the socio-cultural experiences in which these women are inserted. Analyzing
the sociocultural experiences in which these women are inserted. Seeking to unveil
the representations, their impacts and symbolization attributed to the interruption of
pregnancy, in the search to understand how the confrontation of this social reality that
criminalizes the subjects who experience this practice occurs. The methodological path
that accentuates this work is the white, Eurocentric epistemological disobedience, with
the intention of disrupting the productions of knowledge in the social sciences that the
academy has proposed, which produce the invisibility of other experiences. A
bibliographic research was developed that involved the articulation between several
theoretical and research fields, followed by semi-structured interviews with three black
women, who experienced abortion itineraries in different ways, being, 1 case of
abortion due to rape; 1 case of abortion induced by a third party, without the consent
of the pregnant woman; and 1 case of clandestine abortion. The proposal is to bring
reflections on how the State, which is structured in patriarchy, based on social and
power relations surrounded by issues of gender, race and class, criminalizes abortion.
The Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) - Parteira Rufina, where this
research was developed, is one of the facilities of the Social Policy of Social
Assistance. This center is located in the Recôncavo Baiano, 110 km from Salvador, in
the city of Conceição do Almeida – BA, a municipality strongly marked by culturally
accepted conservative values, by a colonial, catholic and coronelist logic in its social
relations of production and reproduction. The results achieved in this research reveal
that abortion is a public health, education and social issue. Through the narratives of
the interviewees, it is possible to reflect on the need to think about new care and follow
up practices, also based on the specificities of black women. As well as reflecting on
the construction of motherhood that reinforces gender stigmas aimed at women,
through the domination of their bodies, interfering in decision-making.
