Abstract
This paper aims to reflect about the medicalization of the body and the criminalization of abortion in the range of population management of biopolitical character. The criminalization of abortion in Brazil will allow poor women to undergo the precarious forms of discontinuation of pregnancy and are brutally victims of this option. The “killable life” of these women is not only devoid of rights but of the quality itself of the human. Decriminalization must break with moral medical addresses to promote the public service for women who wish to opt for abortion, without discrimination of race, belief, ethnics and social status.
medicalization; biopolitical control; abortion