Actores y discursos religiosos en la esfera pública: los debates en torno a la educación sexual y a la muerte digna en Argentina

Sex education and the conditions for a “death with dignity” have been the subject of parliamentary debates over the past decade in Argentina. This paper compares the process leading to the adoption of laws regulating the adoption of a Comprehensive Sex Education and the right for a “death with dignity” by the Argentinean Congress, focusing the analysis in the participation of religious institutions–particularly the Catholic Church– in public debates and the discursive arguments of those actors. The description of both processes shows the different strategies of religious actors and their discourses in the public sphere designed to influence legislation and public policies.