This article explores the criminal regulation of misoprostol as a controlled drug in Brazil as a new form of abortion criminalization. A qualitative analysis of Brazilian case law shows how the courts use a public health rhetoric of unsafe abortion to criminalize the distribution of misoprostol in the informal sector. Rather than an invention of the local bench, this judicial rhetoric reflects global public health discourse and policy on unsafe abortion and the double life of misoprostol as both an essential medicine and a controlled drug. In contrast to previous studies, the article shows that abortion criminalization is not the cause, but rather the consequence of misoprostol’s double life. In the last section, it draws on an outlier judgment of the case law to chart a regulatory future for misoprostol and its supply in the informal sector as a site of harm reduction and safe abortion in public health policy.

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以公共卫生的名义：米索前列醇和巴西对堕胎的新刑事定罪

本文探讨了在巴西将米索前列醇作为一种受控药物作为一种新的堕胎犯罪形式的刑事监管。对巴西判例法的定性分析表明，法院如何使用不安全堕胎的公共卫生言论将米索前列醇在非正规部门的分销定为犯罪。这种司法言论不是地方法官的发明，而是反映了全球公共卫生话语和关于不安全堕胎的政策以及米索前列醇作为基本药物和受控药物的双重生命。与以往的研究相比，文章表明堕胎罪化不是米索前列醇双重生命的原因，而是结果。在最后一节中，