Autonomia da gestante e prática da violência obstétrica: o necessário delineamento de limites éticos jurídicos

Abstract

The main focus of this study was violence practiced against women during their gestational period. Obstetric violence is evidenced by gender violence, in which it causes human rights violations and is materialized through the imposition by medical staff of practicing interventions that are often unnecessary in the hospital environment. With the advent of industrialization and medicalization, a new paradigm of childbirth care emerges, being managed through health institutions and specialized medical staff in the area of obstetrics, in which it assumes total control of the entire parturition process, the pregnant woman being the protagonist of her own history, reducing her autonomy and making her vulnerable to the abusive practices adopted by the multidisciplinary team. In order to support such statements, information was sought in articles published in periodicals, legislation, and works of several authors who seek to establish their concepts within the suggested approach.