The Chamber of Deputies of Buenos Aires approved this Thursday and submitted to the Senate a bill on the “Strategic Plan for Respected Childbirth”, which will be complementary to the national law on humanized childbirth and which seeks to “eradicate obstetric violence” in stages, which include awareness campaigns, visibility, gender and law training for health teams.
“We think of this project as complementary to the national law on Humanized Childbirth,” said the author of the project, deputy Mariana Larroque, who indicated that she seeks to “reaffirm the rights that are enshrined in that law so that they can be made effective in all the territory from the province”.
The legislator indicated that there is talk of plan because it is thinking in stages and “proposes awareness campaigns, visibility, training on gender and law for health teams.”
In addition, he stressed that the project provides for the creation of an intersectoral table within the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health with the participation of the Ministry of Women, the agencies with responsibility for the subject, professional associations, the scientific community, health teams and free organizations of the people that have been working on the subject for a long time.
One more step in the collective construction that we have been carrying out to guarantee our rights.
Let it be law! ?✌️@FrontAll_PBA pic.twitter.com/27QgRGHtyb– Mariana Larroque (@MariLarroqueok) May 12, 2022
Larroque also indicated that the project was “subjected to community debate” and affirmed that a forum was generated by health region that will end next week within the framework of the respected delivery week.
“We are seeking to eradicate obstetric violence typified in the Law for the Comprehensive Protection of Women as a type of gender violence”he said and pointed out that they are generally “naturalized acts that have to do with a health care model that we want to transform.”
The radical deputy Alejandra Lordén, when presenting her arguments, recounted experiences of her profession as an obstetric doctor.
“It seems unbelievable that we have to make a law where it is indicated that the protagonist is the pregnant person, that she must be treated with respect, that if we have a change in medical attitude from childbirth to a cesarean section, we must notify her,” he said.
“Luckily things have changed for the better, hopefully tomorrow we understand that respect among all does not need laws and then we do not have to be in this house voting on these laws,” said the radical legislator.
