Purpose/Context.

The interruption of pregnancy is one of the great chapters of bioethics, and cinema allows its study from a singular perspective. In the context of the recent Argentine law and the draft amendment of the Spanish law, this article aims to examine and compare the trajectories of abortions represented in the films Invisible (Argentina, 2017) and La innocència (Spain, 2020). Methodology/ Approach. We sustain a qualitative approach and the methodology used is the content analysis of films, focusing on the trajectories of the abortions represented there and articulating them with the Argentine and Spanish legal context in force at the time of the release of the films.

Results/Findings.

The results reflect the complexity of access to abortion, where illegality appears to be the first option, and the various limitations of young women's autonomy.

Discussion/Conclusions/Contributions.

The main contribution of the article is the questioning of bioethical aspects linked to the complexity of the decision-making process of abortion of young adolescents through the analysis of singular stories. In addition, the richness of the cinematographic format is confirmed, as it allows the deployment of these singular nuances for the analysis of complex situations.

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