- 4,500 people from 49 countries joined the 24-hour live broadcast from the nosesiabortarono.org website .
From social networks, more than 10,000 views were counted in real time. - More than 90 experts from the region provided live answers to questions from the audience.
This information will soon be available in a virtual repository.
“We all love someone who has had an abortion. It is with them in mind that today we are making history and leaving a legacy,” said María Antonieta Alcalde Castro, director of Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean, at the beginning of the livestream, which was transmitted uninterrupted for 24 hours from Friday, September 6 to Saturday, September 7, starting at 11 a.m. (Mexico City time). ” We are making sure that they have accurate information and that they do not fall into the clutches of organizations that are seeking to misinform them or dissuade them from exercising their right.
In the initial panel, where the largest number of connected audience was achieved, Andi Martín del Campo, a psychologist expert in sexuality and creator of content in social networks, spoke of her experience having detonated the conversation from her Instagram account on Monday, September 2, with a video in which she showed a sign with the caption, “I don’t know whether to have an abortion or not.”
After the revelation of the initiative, several content creators took up the idea, such as Ashley Frangie, Maquis Camargo, Pau G. Melo, Plumademujer, El Mágic, Ana Valeria Becerril, Tengotresnombres, Frida Araujo F., La Laura Guevara, Paulangosta, Catalina Ruiz Navarro, Carolina.afrofem, Julia Didriksson, among others.
“Yes I have seen an evolution, at least in my profile, I am only going to talk about what I know, in that women already have less shame and less guilt to be able to talk openly about: hello, I had an abortion and this and this and this worked for me; or: hello, I had an abortion and it was the best decision and I did not get depressed, because what would have depressed me is that they would have forced me to be a mother,”said Andi Martin del Campo.
The activist and also content creator, Julia Didriksson, celebrated the reach achieved by the longest safe abortion livestream in history, thanks to an articulation that involved the efforts of more than 90 experts and 180 organizations throughout the region. “I believe in the power of collective strength, in being able to do it together, in being able to do it with all of you, with all our organizations; because we cannot fight this fight alone”he stressed.
Of the more than 4,500 people who followed the live transmission from the website of nosesiabortarono.orgThe main countries of origin were Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, the United States and Guatemala: In this historical articulation with regional, national and local organizations that joined forces to resolve the main doubts about safe abortion, from a sociocultural, health, social justice and reproductive rights perspective, the participation of countries that are highly restrictive in terms of abortion was highlighted, since Latin America has the subregion with the highest number of countries in the world that totally criminalize it: of the seven countries that make up Central America, three criminalize abortion in all its forms.
“The digital space has become a space that we have appropriated because we had no other channel,” said Joshi Lebán, who is also a member of thesaid Joshi Lebán, member of Asociación Ameyalli and Sombrilla Centroamericana.
What is the audience wondering about abortion?
During the live transmission, questions were received from social networks and the website.
The block that received the most questions was Safe Abortion, where the main concerns were about types of procedures, self-managed abortion, abortion according to weeks of pregnancy, care during and after an abortion, as well as pre-existing health conditions that should be considered when having an abortion and recommendations for pain management.
The other two blocks that also received a high percentage of questions were the Pathways to abortion: support networks, where concerns focused on how support works, where to find information about these networks in the different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, how to be trained to support an abortion, as well as the uncertainty in highly restrictive countries to share information without this implying a risk.
While the block on Legal framework of abortion in Latam received questions about the progress and implementation of access laws in the region, the human rights frameworks that ratify abortion as a right, as well as the diversity of conditions that enable the legality of the procedure according to the number of weeks, geographic location, as well as protections for health personnel.
Some doubts that appealed to different blocks were related to cultural beliefs and stigma about abortion.
In this regard, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Global Director of Research, Advocacy, Campaign and Policy, commented that: “It is important to emphasize that access to safe and legal abortion is a human right, it is a human rights issue. Denying women, girls and others with the capacity to bear children access to abortion is a form of discrimination and violates a range of human rights. This is often not thought about when debating whether or not to have an abortion.”.
However, it was not all questions, the audience also shared comments about their experiences, so the various live chats, from social networks and the website, became spaces of support and solidarity.
“My mother at the age of 13, told me that women always had abortions and would continue to do so. I will thank her all my life”said one of the comments.
Next steps
The next few weeks, the website nosesiabortarono.org will be in a process of updating to become an informative repository with the answers, in text and video to the questions that the population has about abortion; since, “the livestream is not the ultimate goal – of I don’t know whether to abort or not – it is a means to reach a website where we have all the information that we came to make available to people,” said the Ipas LAC director.said the Ipas LAC director.
“Algorithms have begun to create ghettos on the Internet that have had an impact on democracy, so we have to make more content, so we can reach more people, because if a person is thinking about whether or not to have an abortion, the first thing they will do is go on the Internet, and that this information is there is important,” she concluded.concluded the co-founder and director of Volcanicas, Catalina Ruiz Navarro, in the last block of the transmission.
Currently, the website has information on the more than 90 experts who participated in the longest safe abortion livestream in history and general information on the campaign.
To receive information when the site is enabled as a repository, people can register here.
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