ABRASCO, the Brazilian Public Health Association, held the Brazilian Congress on Public Health Policy, Planning and Management in Fortaleza from November 2nd to 6th. With several tables and plenary sessions, the Congress brought together a large audience of health agents, as well as people from academia and civil society organizations. Jacqueline Pitanguy and Hildete Pereira de Mello were speakers at the table coordinated by Isabela Soares Santos, Coordinator of the Public Policy and Health Care Program at FIOCRUZ. With the title of Struggles for the SUS in the National Congress and Women in Politics: from the Baton Lobby to the Present Day, the table recovered, in the presentations by Jacqueline and Hildete, the struggle of women for the affirmation of their right to health, from the slogan from the feminist movement in the seventies, Our Body Belongs to Us, to health policies such as PAISM, and the fight to insert the constitutional provision that guarantees the right to choose in reproductive life. Jacqueline and Hildete also highlighted the struggle to ensure the right to legal abortion in health services, a challenge that continues today.
