Práctica social del aborto inducido como estrategia de control del crecimiento poblacional

Abstract

The general objective of the essay is to reflect on the potential of the social practice of induced abortion as a strategy to control population growth, based on the execution of a documentary methodology close to hermeneutics. interested in the generation of information that supports the sociological debate with greater scope and depth, without moralistic biases or a priori prejudices. Everything indicates that, from a sociological perspective, abortion as a recurrent social phenomenon must be treated under the co-ordinates of a deep and multidimensional approach, covering demographic aspects in relation to the social practice that embodies it. Overpopulation and its consequences, social disasters, are real facts that run over social structures in the past and the historical present of humanity, by breaking the fragile balance between available resources and existing population in a given society. The careful reading of the sources at our disposal allows us to conclude that if abortion continues to be penalized, with its consequent closure in hiding, the symbolic and material conditions will be produced and reproduced in order to face future harmful outcomes, such as: more poverty, more hunger, greater begging, increase in the number of members in families, precarization of public services, among others. Unfortunately, it is in the developing countries, where the negative effects generated by the asymmetry between available resources and opportunities and exponentially growing people and communities are further maximized.