While anti-abortion activists have been successful in pushing to restrict access to abortion across the USA, reproductive rights activists have been mobilizing across Latin America to push for the easement of strict anti-abortion policies. These opposing directions of travel have renewed interest in which human rights arguments would best support the expansion of access to abortion in Latin America. To date, progress in this area has mostly relied on understanding that the prohibition of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment requires states to allow abortions in the direst of circumstances. However, the vast majority of women in the region who seek abortions do not qualify for the small exemptions contained in the law. Activists looking to expand abortion provisions beyond the cruelty paradigm therefore need to find arguments that can stand firm in a generally conservative Latin American region. In this search, the Inter-American System could, somewhat surprisingly, provide keys to constructing a new discourse surrounding reproductive rights based on a nuanced understanding of structural discrimination and a willingness to visibilise the suffering of women.

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超越临界点：美洲体系能否容纳堕胎权？

虽然反堕胎活动家在推动限制美国各地的堕胎方面取得了成功，但生殖权利活动家一直在拉丁美洲各地动员起来，推动放宽严格的反堕胎政策。这些相反的方向重新引起了人们的兴趣，即人权论点最能支持扩大拉丁美洲的堕胎机会。迄今为止，该领域的进展主要依赖于理解禁止残忍、不人道和有辱人格的待遇要求各国允许在最可怕的情况下进行堕胎。然而，该地区绝大多数寻求堕胎的妇女不符合法律规定的小额豁免条件。因此，希望将堕胎条款扩展到残忍范式之外的活动家需要找到能够在普遍保守的拉丁美洲地区站稳脚跟的论据。在这种探索中，美洲体系可以提供关键，以构建围绕生殖权利的新话语，其基础是对结构性歧视的细致理解和公开女性苦难的意愿。