[en] ObjectivesThe aim of this article is to recognize and understand how certain discourses and practices carried out by health professionals and sonographers shape the emotional experiences of women who aborted with medication in two provinces of Cuyo, Argentina.MethodThe research was carried out with a qualitative design through a biographical method and thematic life-stories that emphasize the experience with medical abortion in conditions where abortion is legally and socially restricted. For this research, 18 in-depth interviews were conducted and analysed with women who underwent at least one voluntary pharmacological abortion made in a clandestine way between 2010 and 2019 and who registered interactions with professionals. The interviews were conducted between 2016 and 2019.ResultsCriminalizing, disciplinary and/or normativizing discourses implemented through direct and indirect actions affected the configuration of women's emotional experiences. The emotional effects of clandestinity were reinforced: they intensified the fear for their own lives and the fear of being denounced and imprisoned; promoted feelings of vulnerability, uncertainty, lack of control over one's life, persecution and imposed certain silences. Conversely, moralizing and blaming discourses did not have said effects on the women interviewed.ConclusionsThese interventions are strategies of gender discipline that produce and reproduce criminalizing power practices and that have a central role in the experiences of women: said discourses affect negatively their emotional health; they push them to take avoidable risks and they violently limit their right to an integral health. Nonetheless, they do not take away women's power to make decisions about their own body.

[es] ObjetivoSe busca reconocer y comprender cómo actúan ciertos discursos y prácticas de profesionales en Medicina y ecografistas que obstaculizaron las experiencias en la configuración de las vivencias emocionales de mujeres que abortaron con medicamentos en dos provincias de Cuyo, Argentina.MétodoSe utiliza un diseño cualitativo con método biográfico e historias de vida temáticas que enfatizan las experiencias de aborto farmacológico en condiciones de restricción legal y social. Se realizaron y analizaron 18 entrevistas en profundidad a mujeres que atravesaron al menos un aborto farmacológico voluntario clandestino entre 2010 y 2019 y que registraron interacciones con profesionales. Las entrevistas se realizaron entre 2016 y 2019.ResultadosLos discursos criminalizadores, disciplinadores y/o normalizadores implicados en accionares directos e indirectos afectaron la configuración de las experiencias emocionales. Recrudecieron los efectos emocionales de la clandestinidad: intensificaron el temor por la propia vida y el temor a ser denunciadas y encarceladas; promovieron sentimientos de vulnerabilidad, incertidumbre, falta de control sobre la propia vida, persecución e impusieron silenciamientos sobre la experiencia. A su vez, los discursos moralizantes y culpabilizadores no surtieron tal efecto en las mujeres entrevistadas.ConclusiónEstas intervenciones son estrategias de disciplinamiento de género que producen y reproducen el poder criminalizador y que ocupan un lugar central en las vivencias de las mujeres: afectan negativamente su salud emocional, las empujan a asumir riesgos evitables y limitan violentamente su derecho a la salud integral. Aun así, no les arrebatan el poder de decidir sobre su propio cuerpo.