The Making of Clandestinity: Strategic Ignorance in Abortion Practices in Latin America.

Abortion is a public secret in Latin America. It is highly restricted across the majority of the continent and yet millions of abortions take place every year. We use the sociological framework of 'strategic ignorance' to argue that convenient not knowing, erasure and concealment allow for the simultaneous negation and allowance of abortions in Latin America.

The chemical geographies of misoprostol: Spatializing abortion access from the biochemical to the global.

is a chemical that travels. Better known as misoprostol, it was designed as a stomach ulcer drug but is now used around the world as an abortion pill due to the self-experimentation of Latin American communities who were seeking ways to end unwanted pregnancies. We develop a chemical geography approach to misoprostol that allows us to scale inward to understand the chemical properties of this medication while also being able to scale out to understand how medicinal effects are interwoven with and determined by global politics.

Reproductive Justice and the Figure of the Child: The Multiple Harms of Forced Sterilization and Abortion in Peru.

We argue that discourses around forced sterilization and abortion restrictions too often focus on motherhood and fertility and ignore the multiple other harms they bring. To do this, we travel with the North American framework of reproductive justice (RJ) to think through experiences of (non)reproduction in Peru and consider its analytic possibilities. In this intervention, we wish to focus on the commonality between RJ's three tenets: the figure of the child and its analytic force.

No bad abortions: Graphic abortion narratives as feminist discourse.

'Graphic medicine' refers to the bringing together of biomedical discourses and comics in order to problematize power asymmetries within healthcare and medicine (Czerwiec et al. 2015; Green and Myers 2010). Within this, there has been increased attention on the topic of reproduction in order to challenge the medicalisation of reproduction and centre the experiences of people as they have sex, navigate contraceptions, become pregnant, give birth, and/or have abortions, among other issues.

Building infrastructures of abortion care in an un-caring state: acompañante's carework and abortion access in Peru.

For abortion seekers, Peru is an uncaring state where legal and policy interventions have resulted in violence, persecution, and neglect. This state of abortion uncare is set within historic and ongoing denials of reproductive autonomy, coercive reproductive care, and the marginalisation of abortion. Abortion is not supported, even where legally permissible.

The geography of abortion: Discourse, spatiality and mobility.

Abortion has historically been ignored in geography. Although bodies and pregnancy have been increasingly studied since the 1990s, a reticence around abortion remains. In recent years, however, this has begun to change.

Feeling better: representing abortion in 'feminist' television.

Abortion is a common and safe gynaecological procedure. Yet in film and television it is disproportionately represented as risky, violent, requiring hospitalisation, and affecting young, white, wealthy women. This reinforces stigma, fear and misunderstanding surrounding the procedure.

Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities.

Scholarship on abortion travel has examined the places women travel between and why such journeys are necessary. However, there has been scant attention paid to the journeys themselves and these journeys are undertaken. This paper uses William Walters' notion of 'viapolitics' to better attend to people travel by focussing on the role of vehicles in abortion politics.