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Episode #12: Feminist Self-Managed Abortion and Activism

with Mariana Assis, Sara Larrea and Nayla Vacarezza

19.03.2025 51 min

Zusammenfassung & Show Notes

In this episode, lawyer and politicial scientist Mariana Assis, sociologist Nayla Vacarezza and Public Health scholar and sociologist Sara Larrea talk about self-managed abortion, the practice of obtaining abortion medications independently and using them to manage the abortion process without clinical supervision. The importance of activists, of self-ownership of women's own bodies and the different standards in different countries are discussed, among other questions and areas.

All three belong to a research group that worked at ZiF under the title "Translocal Networks for Feminist Self-Managed Abortion in the Americas and Europe: Transforming Law, Health and Culture Through Activism and Scholarship".

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We are grateful for the intro by Niklas Schönfeld, for the voice recordings of Molina Panzner and Erica Shires and for the podcast cover by Corinna Mehl.
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