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This article examines the trajectory of Romy Medeiros da Fonseca, a Brazilian feminist lawyer whose work is often remembered for her activism surrounding the approval of the Statute of Married Women (1962). Seeking to expand the biography of the intellectual, this study, based on varied sources, including those that make up the personal collection of the lawyer, donated to the Library of Congress of the United States, divides the biography of the activist into two moments: her intellectual thinking of approximately 1950 to 1980 and her worldviews from the 1980s onwards. Despite Romy Medeiros da Fonseca's heavy focus on civil law issues throughout her career, from the 1980s onwards she began to dedicate herself to debates on the decriminalization or legalization of abortion. I argue this change in perspective, on the one hand, brought greater sensitivity to the demands of impoverished sectors of Brazilian society. However, on the Other hand, one could argue that such a change of perspective did not lead Romy Medeiros da Fonseca to incorporate a denser debate on race and gender in her work. This article concludes that the absence of such debate, despite its presence in Brazilian society, potentially arises from a political-ideological objection; hypothesis formulated due to Romy's status as a higher-class woman, far from the reality of the majority of Brazilians, as well as due to the lawyer's good relations with public authorities and more conservative institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]