Reproductive rights and abortion: Women in the Zika epidemic

This article analyzes women's right to abortion in the context of the zika epidemic. It seeks to answer: what has been the academic discursive pattern regarding the right to voluntary abortion given the health emergency brought about by the zika epidemic? How are female specificities and the ethical and legal principles of reproductive rights considered in this literature? We identified nine articles based on a search in the Scopus database with the search key "abortion AND (zika OR microcephaly)" published in public health and bioethics journals. By analyzing the articles' contributions from a feminist perspective, this article calls into question the necessary transformations of the Brazilian legal framework given the imperativeness of the international legislation and jurisprudence of reproductive rights as human rights.