Análisis crítico de la política pública sobre derechos sexuales y reproductivos durante la revolución ciudadana

Abstract

The research presented in this text is an effort to understand the variations in public policies regarding sexual and reproductive rights that occurred in Ecuador during the government of the "Revolución Ciudadana” (Citizen Revolution) (January 2007 to May 2017). We analyzed two representative processes: the changes in policies on sexual education from the ENIPLA to the Family Plan, and the exclusion of stipulations from the Integral Organic Penal Code (COIP) that existed previously in order to decriminalize abortion regarding rape cases. It is a qualitative and descriptive analysis of phenomena, situations, contexts and events on public policies. The methodology for the interpretation of reality proposed in this study becomes a strategy that questions the exercise of power by analyzing: a self-contradictory leftist regime, a divided social movement, public policies that fail to establish boundaries between religion and state opposing both national and international regulatory frameworks related to these rights. The analysis shows that there has been a setback in public policies on sexual rights and reproductive rights. Unprecedentedly, the secular state is not respected. The state legally penalizes and imprisons poor women for allegedly provoked abortions. At this time, the country does not have a comprehensive sexual education program with a human rights based approach. The moral, Catholic principles and patriarchal c of the President of the republic have been imposed as state policy.