In Brazil's last presidential campaign, abortion became a centerpiece of political debate. As a subject interconnecting the political and religious, public and private arenas, abortion was a strong point of debates on media coordinated through the internet. The aim of this paper is to examine the trajectory of a critical event in particular: the news of an alleged miscarriage by Mrs. Mônica Serra, the wife of one of the presidential candidates, through newspapers, blogs, social media and Twitter. I intend to investigate how those several online and offline spaces of interaction and transmission of facts and versions coordinate from a subject that, included in the political struggle, comes to critically interconnect the dimensions of the public and the private.
Abortion; elections; journalism; internet
