A violência obstétrica como violação dos direitos fundamentais das mulheres: a subalternização do parto natural pelo sistema de produção capitalista

Abstract

This academic essay deals with a theme that has generated heated debates regarding obstetric violence, notably as a form of subordination of natural childbirth, in disrespect for the parturient's manifestation of will. The attempt was made to correlate the “dictatorship” of transactional production chains with the proliferation of cesarean births, since they are more profitable and thus defensible by the capitalist system of production. To reach the finalistic content, with the basic (but not simplistic) idea that, besides new legislative proposals for protection and jurisprudential hits, paradigmatic changes are needed. As a foundation of the premises, we sought to make a brief historical foray on the human rights of women, where the ratio quaestio of the observance of the volitional act as opposed to the imposition of profit, which continues to dictate procedures, including the field of medicine, was punctuated, supported by the pharmaceutical industry and the production of new technologies to the detriment of women's desire to undergo humanized childbirth.