LEGABO Team Participates in the Workshop “Abortion in Europe. History, Policies and Practices”, University of Bergen

On April 28 and 29, 2025, the research team of the LEGABO project – Trials for Abortion in Democratic Spain: Reproductive Rights, Material Cultures and Legal Cultures of Abortion (1970s–2000s) – took part in the workshop held in Bergen, Norway, as part of a meeting dedicated to the intersections between history, law, and reproductive health.

On this occasion, Agata Ignaciuk presented the project’s historiographical and methodological approach, which focuses on the analysis of court files and high-profile trials as a way to reconstruct the material and legal cultures of abortion in democratic Spain.

The presentation also highlighted LEGABO’s interdisciplinary commitment, combining tools from the cultural history of medicine, gender studies, philosophy of law, and digital humanities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of abortion in Spain.

In the same session, researcher María Mundi-López, also a member of the LEGABO team, presented the paper “Between Access and Technique: History and Controversies of Abortion Policies in Spain (1965–2022)”, in which she traced the historical development of abortion techniques in Spain and their influence on current access inequalities.