ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 depicts the silent consensus on women in health. The AKP era has experienced comprehensive health reforms, promoted as bringing equality and increasing efficiency in the mostly publicly owned health system of all of the eras. With an eye on gender, this chapter discusses the reforms in detail and reveals that the reforms produced a system that is neither egalitarian nor efficient for users. Instead, the reforms played the crucial role of privatizing the healthcare system and they included some constraints on women’s control over their bodies. This chapter specifically discusses the anti-abortion bill and the increasing violence, even femicide, against women. Through meticulous policy changes, the AKP era has promoted and institutionalized the limitations on reproductive rights, particularly abortion and contraception.
