The rights of pregnant women from the “gender ideology” perspective in the Chamber of Deputies

Abstract

This article explores, from the processing of PL 853 of 2019 proposing a “National Week of Awareness of the Rights of Pregnant Women” in the Social Security and Family Commission, how certain rights have been disputed in the Chamber of Deputies. The debates during the running of the bill in the commission, as well as the various versions of substitutes presented, show that despite the proposal being considered meritorious by the parliamentarians, they disputed rights of an “ideological nature”. That is, even though the bill did not prescribe new rights for pregnant women, some parliamentarians accused it of bring back sexual and reproductive rights and promoting abortion. By accompanying its course, we see how sexual and reproductive rights have been described as a threat to certain values defended in the legislative, and a “gender ideology” discourse emerged from the same debate, and, in the case of the proposal above, this discourse was the one chosen in the Social Security and Family Commission.

Keywords:
pregnant women; gender ideology; sexual and reproductive rights; Chamber of Deputies