WCCEH Seminar: Abortion Mobilities in Latin America and Europe (online)
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This session brings together the movement of people and pills for abortion healthcare in Latin America and Europe.
About this event
Abortions always require mobility. From pregnant people traveling to clinics for surgical abortions or ordering abortion pills to be sent to them at home, something or someone is on the move. This session brings together the movement of people and pills for abortion healthcare in Latin American and Europe with discussions from two speakers, Cordelia Freeman and Liza Caruana Finkel. Cordelia will present her research on the Chile-Peru ‘abortion trail’ where people travel from northern Chile into southern Peru for cheaper, more accessible abortions as well as her current research project on the mobility of the abortion pill misoprostol across Latin America. Liza will introduce the work of Abortion Support Network, an organisation that provides information and resources for people to travel from places in Europe where they cannot access a safe abortion to locations where they can.
Cordelia is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Exeter. Her research explores the geographies of reproductive justice in Latin America, particularly how abortions are accessed. Her current Wellcome Trust and ESRC funded research project is examining abortion mobilities in Mexico and Peru with a focus on the abortion medication misoprostol.
Liza is a PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool and a reproductive justice activist. Her doctoral research is focused on abortion stigma in Malta, which has one of the most restrictive abortion legislations in the world and is the only EU country with a total ban. She volunteers with Abortion Support Network, an organisation that helps people who need to access safe abortions in Europe. They provide information on clinics, travel and accommodation, and provide financial assistance to help with costs for those who need it.
Juanita is a PhD researcher in Art History and Visual Cultures at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. She has experience volunteering with feminist networks in her natal Colombia that provide support to people who need access to safe abortions.
This seminar will take place in person and online.
If you would like to attend in person, please register separately here.
The event will be recorded and published on the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health YouTube channel, so by attending you acknowledge you may be recorded. To maintain privacy, you are welcome to keep your video turned off and change your Zoom screen name.
If you have any questions, please contact wellcomecentre@exeter.ac.uk.
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