The abortion in the Inter-American Human Rights System: feminist contributions

This article intends to verify the position of the Inter-Amer-ican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the In-ter-American Court of Human Rights (IHC Court) about the right to abortion. About the competence of IACHR, it will be analyzed the case Baby Boy vs. United States (1981). In relation to the Inter-American Court, it will be analyzed the following cases: Artavia Murillo vs. Costa Rica (2012); Ms. Beatriz vs. El Salvador (2013); Ms. I.V. vs. Bol??via (2016) and Manuela vs. El Salvador (2021). We start from the assump-tion of inter-American feminism ??? theoretical, social and political movement that presses for dialogue between the national system and the inter-American system to guaran-tee women??s rights and promote gender equality. It is a crit-ical dialogue that, on the one hand, identifies inter-amer-ican standards for demanding higher national standards for the protection of human rights and, on the other hand, seeks to reflect on the need to improve standards on the de-criminalization of abortion in Latin America.