title: [Abortion itineraries in a clandestine context in the city of Rio de Janeiro-Brazil].
abstract: From a series of in-depth interviews, we gathered a significant amount of ethnographic material on the concrete and symbolic paths taken by young women and their partners in the search for a solution to an unplanned pregnancy. Inequities in Brazilian society are expressed in itineraries/routes of different sinuosity, complexity and duration according to the individuals' social and material conditions of existence. Thus, for middle class youths access to abortion is very swift and secure, whereas for the rest of women the decision to abort consists of efforts on different levels to achieve the undertaking. The narratives may assume dramatic proportions, including abortion even in advanced stages of pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos, Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. sexgen@uerj.br
authors.forename: Maria Luiza
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Heilborn
authors.forename: Cristiane da Silva
authors.initials: Cda S
authors.lastname: Cabral
authors.forename: Elaine Reis
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Brandão
authors.forename: Livi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Faro
authors.forename: Fabíola
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cordeiro
authors.forename: Rogério Lopes
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Azize
mesh_terms: D000024:Abortion, Illegal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D014504:Urban Health; D055815:Young Adult