Abstract

The article reconstructs the history of the post-dictatorial feminist organization for abortion rights in Chile and its relation to the legalization of abortion in three cases in 2017. This legal conquest is seen as insufficient by the feminist movement, that continues manifesting for free abortion. The rejection of the constitutional proposition in 2022, produced an uncertain scenario for sexual and reproductive rights and opens a new set of challenges for the feminist agenda. Here we propose to recover the concept of biological emancipation first used by the MEMCH (Movement for the emancipation of the Chilean women) in the 1930’s to think abortion in the context of sexual citizenship as well as the need to contest the social order which frustrates the autonomy of women and other bodies with gestating capacity