Cuerpa Politica

Beyond the law: Abortion access in Latin America. With Dr Cordelia Freeman

May 12, 2021 Dr Rachell Sanchez-Rivera and Dr Rebecca Ogden Season 1 Episode 5
Cuerpa Politica
Beyond the law: Abortion access in Latin America. With Dr Cordelia Freeman
Show Notes

Dr Cordelia Freeman is a political geographer, and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Her research considers the spatiality of reproductive health in Latin America, including how reproductive justice - particularly abortion access - is shaped in relation to borders and mobilities, and in the context of violence.

In this conversation, we discuss how abortion access figures as a dimension of reproductive justice in Latin America, how it is bound by legal and geographical boundaries but also transformed by the possibilities afforded by mobilities of pills and low-tech, responsive information. We also discuss the politics of abortion representation in popular culture and what’s next for abortion access fights in the region.