What rights do pregnant women fail in Portugal? – Present
She is part of the Portuguese Association of Women Jurists and believes that advocacy can be a way of fighting for gender equality. When, that popular pregnancy a study is one of the specialties and obstetrics to pregnancy, opted for a postpartum study and the education of its origin. “The trauma of childbirth is already compared to the trauma of war. Post-traumatic stress exists. There are women who wake up halfway crying, who have nightmares, who live for years trapped in the night of the night. But in Portugal, in court, it is very difficult to prove obstetric violence that leaves only psychological marks, we remain stuck with physical violence”, explains the lawyer.
Listen here to the conversation with Mia Negrao
Mia Negrao deals daily with the reluctance of others in relation to the rights she tries to defend. “I have a target on my forehead. And I’m not kidding when I say this. Many health professionals, and even colleagues in the law, think that what I do is silly, which is to spread disinformation, and try to discredit my work”. However, it is pregnant women and their families who do not think the same, and it is not by chance that there are more and more sessions to be born with rights, they provide a list of information about obstetric practices, hospital protocols where research, scientific research, of course from World Health Organization and, of course, rights and duties. “Informed consent is just the cornerstone of health care, it protects everyone, doctors and patients. But the bad health seems that it is not yet”.
In these 50 minutes, she explains how, invariably, as pregnant women, including a “never heck case of body procedures” without being asked for permission for what is being done to their bodies, part plans continue to be adept, no matter how that they are a right enshrined in the law, as many women say yes under duress and without proper access to information on pros and cons, which, like many of the WHO, continue not to be taken into account in various In a routine routine (according to Euro Peristat , the episiotomy rate here rises to 70%, while in Denmark, for example, it does not reach 5%), and how verbal violence, along with the infantilization of parturient women, occurs daily, both in public and private hospitals .
The Ordem dos Médicos, however, continues to say that the expression “obstetric violence” is not suitable for Portugal. “To the women who always ask me what they want. There are those who want to go to court, want to file a criminal complaint. But most say this to me: ‘I just want an apology.’ Deep down, let them know that it doesn’t deviate from having to go back, that it was wrong, that it cannot be repeated. This says a lot”.