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Sumario:The paper offers a preliminary characterization of two of the constitutional perspectives confronted in the interpretation of the legal regime about abortion in our country. The paper distinguishes a conservative constitutional paradigm from a transformative and feminist constitutional approach. Contrasting these two approaches to constitutional interpretation in the context of abortion may be useful to understand the different scholarly positions represented in the debates on the prospective reform of abortion laws undertaken in the congressional hearings hosted during 2018 by Congress. The characterization of the two approaches may also contribute to explain the history of contentious implementation of the interpretation of article 86 of the Criminal Code as establishing a model of indications demanding the supply of legal abortions.