Peres Simone Ouvinha, Heilborn Maria Luiza
Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2006 Jul;22(7):1411-20. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2006000700006. Epub 2006 Jun 14.
This article aims to unveil the notion of abortion as an element in young people's thoughts on teenage pregnancy. The study analyzes data from semi-structured interviews with 123 young men and women 18-24 years of age in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador, Brazil, belonging to different social strata. Based on information concerning their affective, sexual, and reproductive circumstances, an abortion typology was established with a gradient ranging from considering the act to the attempt to materialize it, actually submitting to abortion, and even ruling out the possibility of interrupting the pregnancy. According to the data, 73% of interviewees had considered the possibility of an abortion, demonstrating an important presence of this notion as a recourse vis-à-vis an unpredicted pregnancy, even in the Brazilian context where abortion is illegal. Among the 86 young people who had experienced a pregnancy, 27 reported having resorted to abortion (20 males and seven females). The results indicate gender differences and contribute to an understanding of teenage pregnancy by examining induced abortion, a hidden dimension in the public and scientific debate on this issue.
本文旨在揭示堕胎这一概念，它是年轻人对青少年怀孕问题思考中的一个要素。该研究分析了对巴西阿雷格里港、里约热内卢和萨尔瓦多的123名18至24岁的青年男女进行半结构化访谈的数据，这些青年男女来自不同社会阶层。根据他们在情感、性和生殖方面的情况信息，建立了一种堕胎类型学，其范围从考虑堕胎行为到试图实施堕胎、实际接受堕胎，甚至排除终止妊娠的可能性。根据数据，73%的受访者曾考虑过堕胎的可能性，这表明即使在巴西堕胎非法的背景下，这一概念作为应对意外怀孕的一种手段也占据重要地位。在86名经历过怀孕的年轻人中，27人报告曾求助于堕胎（20名男性和7名女性）。研究结果表明了性别差异，并通过审视人工流产这一在关于该问题的公众和科学辩论中被忽视的维度，有助于理解青少年怀孕问题。
