Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985 (2020)
Ignaciuk, Agata (Author)
Sethna, Christabelle (Author)
Gender and History
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Pages: 286-303
This article examines the role played by abortion referral networks in enhancing the exercise of what we call the ‘transnational reproductive agency’ of Spanish women before the partial decriminalisation of abortion in Spain in 1985. Using oral history interviews, media records and archival material, it argues that formal and informal abortion referral networks, which made travel to legal abortion services abroad possible, ranged in organisational form and operational intensity. The activism of those participating in these networks materialised in informal assistance as well as in large-scale formal abortion referral, and was motivated at times by friendship and empathy, as well as by political, economic or feminist commitments. The considerable presence of these networks in the 1970s and early 1980s led to the recognition of abortion as a major public health issue, the mainstreaming of abortion rights and the transmission of ideas about socialism, feminism and social justice in Spain.
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