Imágenes y Representaciones del Aborto Voluntario

Abstract

In Colombia, as in other Latin American countries, a current topic of political debate and public opinion, is the legalization of abortion. The judgement of the Colombian Constitutional Court C-355 of 10 May 2006 ruled that three exceptional cases were decriminalized. Based on this ruling, reproductive health care providers and NGO who have promoted decriminalization published through internet and social media, communicative pieces that support the free access to Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (V.T.P. - I.V.E. in spanish), and now fight in favor of the legalization of this practice. Some of these images were selectioned to compose the corpus of this investigation, to do an enunciative analysis and a multimodal critical discourse analysis (CDA). The approach to these narratives will be around discursive marks about biopower, wellness notions and social marketing, and thus search for the notions they have about it and the social and cultural change they propose through their visual communications.