“I Had an Abortion”: Blogs as Spaces for a Manifest

Abstract In this article, we sought to reflect on the experience of a voluntary interruption of pregnancy of women in Brazil and how this experience relates to the sexual and reproductive rights of women. In order to attain this objective, we used the Internet to collect accounts of women who have experienced an abortion. By examining these stories, we built an understanding on the experience of abortion. From our perspective, this experience can be divided in three moments: the moment of the decision (for the abortion), the moment after the decision, and the moment of care. Subsequently to these events, a different woman emerges. In this process, this woman identifies herself within the historical, social and cultural contexts in which we are inserted.