BREAKING: British doctor who will lead Savita inquiry has previously written that countries who restrict abortion should be CHALLENGED.
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British doctor who will lead Savita inquiry has previously written that countries who restrict abortion should be CHALLENGED.
He favours “liberal abortion laws” which make “choice of a termination of pregnancy a right for women”.
Safer childbirth: A rights-based approach
Article Outline
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The global problem
- 3. Human rights agenda
- 4. A rights-based approach
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Copyright
Abstract
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set very high targets for women’s reproductive health through reductions in maternal and infant mortality, among other things. Reductions in maternal mortality and morbidity can be achieved through various different approaches, such as the confidential review of maternal deaths, use of evidence-based treatments and interventions, using a health systems approach, use of information technology, global and regional partnerships, and making pregnancy safer through initiatives that increase the focus on human rights. A combination of these and other approaches can have a synergistic impact on reductions in maternal mortality. This paper highlights some of the current global efforts on safer pregnancy with a focus on reproductive rights. We encourage readers to do more in every corner of the world to advocate for women’s reproductive rights and, in this way, we may achieve the MDGs by 2015.
1. Introduction
The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 189 member states in September 2000 is an important commitment by the United Nations General Assembly to women’s rights to health [1]. Of the 8 MDGs, although only goal 5 explicitly addresses the health of women, the attainment of all the other goals directly or indirectly influences the women’s health. The principles of the MDGs are derived from the fundamental human rights to health in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 [2].
The important agreement by 179 countries at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994 [3] does try to improve reproductive health, among other things, within a human rights framework. All over the world people are becoming more educated and aware of both their societal and individual rights to access fair, evidence-based, and transparent health care [4]. We would like to show that maternity care in both low- and high-income countries can be improved through advocacy and promotion of sexual and reproductive rights, as well as through the enactment of laws and regulations that can make childbirth safer. This idea is supported by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) resolution of 2003, “…that advocacy and inclusion of the human rights of women are an integral and priority area in FIGO activities” [5].
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