For fifty years, first-trimester abortion has been steadily available, legal, safe, and cost-free in Cuba. But in the context of enduring gender disparity, societal attitudes surrounding the procedure vary widely. Women’s often-recurring use of abortion evokes sexual emancipation for some, while others see abortion as a wound that men inflict on women. Men and women express a variety of emotional and practical concerns that highlight the complexity and dynamic nature of the issue. Drawing on ethnographic research from 2016 to 2020, this article argues that men and women’s influences on one another are central to the ways in which abortion is “lived” and to the process of determining abortion’s intimate significance. Whether abortion is experienced as a normalized practice or viewed as something that could never be “normal,” a thorough consideration of men and women’s shared generation of this meaning is crucial to understanding the place of abortion in Cuban society.

五十年来，古巴一直可以稳定地提供、合法、安全且免费的妊娠早期堕胎。但在长期存在性别差异的背景下，围绕该程序的社会态度差异很大。妇女经常反复使用堕胎使一些人获得性解放，而另一些人则将堕胎视为男性对女性造成的伤害。男人和女人表达了各种情感和实际问题，突出了问题的复杂性和动态性。本文借鉴 2016 年至 2020 年的人种学研究，认为男性和女性对彼此的影响对于堕胎“生活”的方式以及确定堕胎亲密意义的过程至关重要。堕胎是作为一种常态化的做法来体验的，还是被视为永远不可能“正常、