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  • Title: Health services and maternity in Mexico.
    Journal: Newsl Womens Glob Netw Reprod Rights; 1991; (36):17-9. PubMed ID: 12284526.
    Abstract:
    This paper considers maternity and mothers to be disdained by society, medical institutions, and medical practitioners who seek to dominate women, especially those women who are dependent upon state public health services. Many women, in fact, die from abortions, pregnancy complications, and/or undernourishment in the care of inadequate state services, and at the hands of negligent, thoughtless practitioners. a personal testimony is provided as witness to ill treatment received by expectant mothers in medical care. Instead of productively working to truly defend dignified maternity for the majority of women in the country, anti-abortionist groups only produce negative social and institutional effects which lead to new aggressions. The feminist position, however, implies support for women to control their bodies as they please, with society offering opportunities for choice. The paper notes the designation of May 28, as the International Day of Action against Maternal Mortality for deaths from medical ill treatment and negligence. It further encourages those who have witnessed or been subjected to such treatment to write in their experiences. Poor treatment may range from imposition of contraceptives to death through negligence.
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