[The logic of the desire. A new look at induced abortion]. / La logica del deseo. Una nueva mirada sobre la interrupcion voluntaria del embarazo.

PIP: A Colombian woman reflects on the desirability of legalizing abortion from her perspective as a psychologist and feminist. Abortion has always been a difficult topic for women because of the way they have been manipulated and made to feel guilt over their maternal roles. The free choice between motherhood or voluntary interruption of pregnancy should be available for women because every infant born has a right to be wanted, loved, and nurtured by the parents. The concept of life that informs support for the choice of abortion goes beyond the merely biological. An infant, to become fully human, requires language, culture, and affection. An infant should represent a human life that is planned, desired, and hoped for, whose arrival is an occasion for joy rather than despair, and that gives motherhood its true character of privilege. If the minimal conditions of caring for an infant are absent, the greater crime is in allowing him to be born to a life of privation and misery.^ieng