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Title: Global Consensus, Dissensus, and National Policy Development: Sterilization and Abortion in Peru

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-1-80382-594-6

ISSN: 1529-2126

DOI: 10.1108/S1529-212620220000033018

Abstract: Sterilization is endorsed as a method of family planning by international governmental organizations; abortion is not. Focusing on policy development for these two issues in a single country, Peru, we ask how power and inequality operate under conditions of global consensus or dissensus. The case of sterilization unfolded the way many previous research studies would predict, with Peruvian state actions corresponding to a global diffusion process. We find that global consensus provided cover for top-down actions that violated the human rights of indigenous women in the country, who were predominantly poor, non-Spanish speakers, and residents of the mountainous, sparsely populated parts of the country. With respect to abortion in Peru, in the absence of global consensus, the state resisted calls for change, advocacy networks have worked at cross-purposes, and a powerful local actor, the Catholic Church, has effectively blocked liberalization efforts. As with sterilization, however, marginalized indigenous women and their interests were rendered invisible.

Url: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1529-212620220000033018/full/html

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Authors: Busse, Erika; Boyle, Elizabeth Heger

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Volume: 33

Pages: 181-201

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