By Lara Bertolini Photo: Claudia Conteris I've been following the debate on abortion decriminalization these days, and I'm very surprised that no mention is made of dissident pregnant bodies. The presentations made by the Women's Movement approach it from a feminist binary perspective, because they don't include lesbians, pregnant people, or trans men.

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I think it's time that, if they are discussing from different spheres—medical, legal, social, philosophical sciences, and everything that comes into play—to understand the arguments regarding legal, safe, and free abortion, it should be done only within the binary system. Bodies also abort. Why don't they include the gender identities that make up society?

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Non-conforming pregnant bodies must be included within the law on legal, safe, and free abortion, since making them visible within the protocol of that law expands the construction of thinking based on diversity and universal inclusion. If we leave a line in the construction of a law on the binary system, we are not respecting the gender identity that speaks of non-binary bodies, which treatments must respect. Because what these do is help shape identity.

 

The law for legal, safe, and free abortion must also be addressed from the perspective of dissident identities. Non-binary dissident bodies, those not framed within heterosexuality, should have a separate paragraph in the law's articles. Otherwise, we are forgetting the Gender Identity Law. If we bind ourselves to the law from a biological perspective and if we don't consider the gestation of a trans body, we are excluding them from the law on legal, safe, and free abortion, failing to ensure their inclusion within the law. Furthermore, we are constructing more binarity, something that has proven to be broken and is not in keeping with the new social context, which is no longer heteronormative.

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So far, none of the presentations I've heard have addressed non-conforming bodies, and that's worrying. Because if a trans person wants an abortion, they won't be included, not even within legal norms, much less within their corporeality. Let's not make the mistake of creating a law that doesn't address the needs of non-heteronormative identities, because there's a risk of repeating the same error as the Law Against Gender Violence, which only addresses women in its articles and doesn't include specific gender identities, the means of violence, and specific actions against our construction. Otherwise, we'll be repairing paradigms based on established and fixed binary theories. Those that refuse to open their field of reasoning and understanding of the social constitutive process that is going through a critical transitional moment, affecting all social strata.