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Abstract
Over the last decade, the feminist movement for abortion, La Marea Verde, has gained strengthen throughout Latin America by framing abortion restrictions as a structural gender violence, resulting in significant legal victories for feminist groups across the region. While abortion is contested both culturally and legally, previous research on abortion politics rarely includes feminist activism aimed at cultural change, often focusing on feminist efforts to effect legal policy reform. Using digital ethnographic methods, this research explores abortion accompaniment, a nonlegal, grassroots strategy aimed at advancing abortion access and destigmatizing abortion. As abortion accompaniment can be a moment of connection and shared meaning, activists use emotional processes to transform negative emotions surrounding abortion such as shame into positive emotions like empathy and empowerment. This case of abortion activism represents one way that feminist social movements can move towards a politics of reproductive liberation unconstrained by volatile political climates, global pandemics, and legal uncertainty.