Access to Legal Termination of Pregnancy in Tartagal

Abstract

Seven ethnic groups live in the municipality of Tartagal, the capital city of the San Martín Department in the Province of Salta, located 55 km from the Bolivian border. According to INDEC data (2001), the population is 11,324 inhabitants. This is a group that has historically suffered from violations in the exercise of its rights in general and in access to the health system in particular. We will present on access to sexual and (non-) reproductive rights, mainly to the Legal Termination of Pregnancy, taking into account that in 2018, the province of Salta adhered to the National Protocol of 2015. We will socialise our experiences and interventions from the public health system, considering that they question the episteme, social imaginaries, institutional devices and the principle of authority, in order to undermine clandestine practices, with avoidable deaths and morbidities, which continue to exist among the native ethnic groups of northern Argentina.