Title:
What happened to Belén : the unjust imprisonment that sparked a women's rights movement
Author:
Edition:
First Harperone edition.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
xv, 215 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780063316737
Abstract:
"In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache—and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage—without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation’s repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide. Belén’s imprisonment is a glaring example of how women’s health care has become increasingly criminalized, putting the most vulnerable—BIPOC, rural, and low-income—women at greater risk of prosecution. Belén’s cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas—not one more—symbolized by thousands of demonstrators around the globe donning white masks, the same kind of mask Belén wore when leaving prison. The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021."--Amazon.ca.
General Note:
"Originally published as Somos Belén in Argentina in 2019 by Grupo Editorial Planeta"--Title page verso.
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Language:
English