– 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 uninterrupted for 24 hours from Friday, September 6, to Saturday, September 7, from 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 to vote.
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 about 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 now 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.
Activist and 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 of our organizations; because we cannot fight this struggle alone”she stressed.
Of the more than 4,500 people who followed the live broadcast from the nosesiabortarono.org website, the 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 efforts to resolve the main doubts about safe abortion, from a socio-cultural, health, social justice and reproductive rights perspective, the participation of highly restrictive countries in terms of abortion was highlighted, since Latin America has the subregion of the world with the highest number of countries 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, member of Asociación Ameyalli and Sombrilla Centroamericana.said 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 the 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 to consider 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.
The Legal Framework for 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 various 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, she told me that women have always had abortions and would continue to do so. I will thank her for the rest of 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 started to create ghettos on the Internet that have had an impact on democracy, that’s why we have to create more content, so that we can reach more people; because if a person is thinking about whether to have an abortion or not, the first thing they will do is go on the Internet, and it is important that this information is there”.concluded the co-founder and director of Volcanicas, Catalina Ruiz Navarro, in the last block of the transmission.
Currently, information from the more than 90 experts who participated in the longest safe abortion livestream in history and general campaign data is available on the website. To receive information when the site is enabled as a repository, people can register here.
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Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC)
Ipas LAC is a regional organization that is part of an international nonprofit network working in the Americas, Africa and Asia to ensure that all women and people of childbearing capacity have the freedom and enjoyment of reproductive choice.
Sarape Group
Sarape Group is a global agency that promotes ideas with a cause. It creates and develops social projects and campaigns since 2010.
Co-host organizations
ACCEDER, Costa Rica; Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, El Salvador; Amnesty International; Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (CDD), Argentina; Centro de Derechos Reproductivos (CDR); Corporación Miles, Chile; Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE), Mexico; INCIDE Joven, Guatemala; Ipas Bolivia; Las Libres, Mexico; Las Thias, Panama; Profamilia, Colombia; Promsex, Peru; Red Necesito Abortar, Mexico; Sombrilla Centroamericana; and Surkuna, Ecuador.
Participating Organizations
Abortera Pericú; Aborto Legal México; Acción Feminista por la Paz; Algaraza, hacia la justicia social y restaurativa A.C.; APROSUVI; Aquelarre, laboratorio de diseño feminista; Asociación Alas de Guatemala; Asociación Colectivo Alejandría; Asociación por una Inclusión Social de las Mujeres y su Entorno (MUSOR); Asociación voces de mujeres; Balance Promoción para el Desarrollo y Juventud A.C.; BeRadFem Xela; Bolívar en Falda; Brujas Californias; Campaña Aborto Legal Morelos; Campaña por el Aborto Legal, hacia la justicia social y restaurativa A.C.; BeRadFem Xela; Bolívar en Falda; Brujas Californias; Campaña Aborto Legal Morelos; Campaña por el aborto legal, seguro y gratuito en Colombia; CEDES; CEJIL; Centro de Derechos de Mujeres; CLACAI; Coalición Feminista Esmeraldeña-COFESME; CODESER; COEEPEM A.C.; Colectiva Feminista La Revuelta; Colectiva Feminista MujerManglar; Colectiva Feminista Mujer Manglar; Colectivo Guendaracane’; Colegio de Especialistas en Enfermeria Perninatal de México A.C.Colmena Consultoras; Corazón Mixteco Atención Psicológica; Corporación Humanas; Corporación Mujeres Libres; Corporación Popular La Caracola; Cresiendo Perú; Cultivando Género A.C.; DAS Cancún; Ddespina; DAS Cancún; DAS Cancún.DAS Cancún; Ddeser Estado de México; Ddeser Guerrero; Ddeser Jalisco; Ddeser Quintana Roo; Divulvadoras; Domo, Centro Médico Argentina; Eliana Arancibia; Equipo Jurídico por los Derechos Humanos Honduras; Es delis con Eis; FCAM; Fe sin Violencias; FEMCHI; Fondo de Aborto para la Justicia Social MARÍA; Frente por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos Oaxaca; Fundación Chiapaneca para Mujeres Migrantes A.C.; Fundación MSI; Fundación MxM; Fundación Unidos por un México Vivo A.C.; GES Mujer Rosario Castellanos; Grupo de Enfermería por el Derecho a Decidir; Hesperian; Hysterfuria; Igualdad Sustantiva Yucatán A.C.; IM Swedish Development Partner; INCODESI; Iniciativas Feministas; Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir; Investigación en Salud y Demografía, S.C. (Insad); IPPF ACRO; Jacarandas; La casa rosada; La Chismecita; Landivarianos; Las Comadres Red de acompañamiento en aborto; Las Consejeras Oaxaca; Las cuidanderas; Las cuidanderas; Las ex exageradas azuerences; Las Sabinas; Libres y Autónomas Chihuahua; Lúminas Centro de Derechos Humanos A.C.; Marcha Disidente x la Memoria; Marea Verde Chihuahua; Marea Verde Guerrero; Marea Verde Guerrero; Marea Verde Tlaxcala; Matamoros Decide; MERAKI: Weaving community; Mexfam; Mi Útero Feliz A.C.; Michis Aborteros; PBA Health Ministry; Morada Violeta; Mujeres Organizadas de Tlaxcala; Mujeres Siempreviva; Mutantes Disidentes; No se metan con nuestras hijas; Odesyr A.C.; Old Witches Colectiva Anti Patriarcal; Oleada Feminista; Para Más Placer, Infosex; Pequespacio Feminista; Periferia Subversiva; Planned Parenthood Global; Plataforma municipal de justicia inclusiva de Trinidad; Polifonía; Pro Salud A.C.; Psicología Integral de Vanguardia; Quinta Ola; RadeT Red de acompañantas de Tlaxcala; Red Aborto Seguro Saltillo; Red ASALEAS; Red de Médicas por el Derecho a Decidir; Red de Médicas por el Derecho a Decidir; Red de profesionales de la salud por el derecho a Decidir; Red de Voluntariado Diversx; Red Huilense De Defensa y Acompañamiento en Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (RHUDA); Red Nacional de Líderes y Lideresas Juveniles Tú Decides; REDAAS; REDefine CDMX; Redefine Durango; REDefine Puebla; Si hay mujeres en Durango A.C.; Siempre Unidas; Socorristas en Red; Te acompaño, Abrazaditas; Telefem A.C.; Tlali Bienestar y Conservación; Tribu Durangueña; Una mano amiga en la lucha contra el sida, A.C. (UMALCS); UNASSE, A.C.; Unidas Para Avanzar; Vidas Paralelas ONG; Vitala Global; Women’s Equality Center (WEC); Yapuranas Colectiva Feminista.
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