Suyapa Portillo is associate professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o Transnational Studies at Pitzer College and a member of the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies at the Claremont Colleges. She is author of Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras, which focuses on the working-class culture of resistance in Honduras.

03.01.2021

• Suyapa Portillo

In Honduras, the Right Is Permanently Locking in Its Abortion Ban

In a country that is already home to some of the worst restrictions on women’s rights, the Honduran Congress voted last month to lock in its bans on abortion and gay marriage, making them almost impossible to overturn. It’s a reminder that, as the feminist green tide washes over much of Latin America, there is still much work to be done.