O conservadorismo distópico à brasileira: direitos sexuais e direitos reprodutivos e a pandemia da COVID-19 no Brasil

Abstract

The pandemic of the new coronavirus agent is considered the biggest health crisis in the history of Brazil. Amid the economic, political, psychological and social repercussions that reshape the subjects' daily lives, the role of sexual and reproductive rights has been the target of susceptible attacks, often eclipsed by the alarming number of deaths resulting from COVID-19. Contrary to the guidelines of the World Health Organization, which considers sexual health and reproductive health services to be essential services and which must be guaranteed in the midst of a pandemic, the Brazilian State, following a conservative international trend, has neglected this agenda and has no legitimacy rights. guaranteed. The purpose of this text is to present, from the analytical lens of decolonial feminism, some questions about the obliteration that political actors have imposed on the agenda of sexual and reproductive rights from an instrumentalization of the pandemic and its victims. Aligning progressive and conservative sectors around the argument of alleged defense of life and its variables, structural racism and anti-woman politics continue to legitimize the denial of rights and preventable deaths in favor of an eugenic project of Brazilianness that increasingly makes explicit their assumptions as to which lives are worth defending or not.