Maternidad sin hijos: Secuelas de violencia obstétrica en casos de óbito fetal en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

Abstract

In the camp of social research, the obstetric violence, has been a recurrent subject in the last few years, that concept refers to a way of violation to the reproductive and human rights, including equality rights, no discrimination, information, integrity, health and reproductive autonomy. It can be generated in the ambit of pregnancy attention, birth and puerperium in the health services [under any public or private model, in biomedicine field, professional and traditional midwifery] (...); that exercise includes scolding, teasing, ironies, treats, manipulation or lack of information, treatment negotiation or postponement of attention, indifference, use of the patient as didactic resource, manage of pain during midwifery work as punishment coercion or deliberate harm to physical and psychological health. In some cases, practices linked to situations of obstetric violence have resulted in the intrauterine death of the fetus. From that moment on, women who have gone through such situation face different scenarios in the social, physical and emotional areas, linked to the feminine and ideological stereotypes of motherhood that shake them deeply. For this reason, in the present work I propose the possibility of opening a space for reflection on the relationship of these problems from the perspective of structural gender violence.