Aborto por violación” investigación periodística y guion para reportaje audiovisual

Abstract

The media importance on the issue of abortion in Ecuador, but especially abortion for rape, has aroused interest in including it on the agendas of the digital and traditional media. The fourth power, as communication and journalism are called, is responsible for much of the existing public opinion, including to address the rights, and freedoms allowed. The objective of this thesis is the compilation of legal, social, historical, testimonial and media information about abortion for rape in Ecuador and how feminist movements, the media and the law have gone hand in hand with the issue. The death of thousands of women due to abortion, as a public health issue, cannot be omitted because it also annually causes the integral development of the lives of thousands of girls and women who are forced to give birth in the country and also of those who access clandestine and unsafe abortions and are penalized for doing so. Journalism has the tools and the responsibility to be sufficient in society; therefore, the development of a script for the production of an audiovisual report and interviews with experts around abortion due to rape in Ecuador are the ideal instruments to expose the subject. Journalism can be used to massively communicate messages, which in one way or another, cannot be carried only in conventional ways such as social debate and representations in public spaces by different groups of civil society