{"title":"[Home birth. A reflection on bioethics and human rights].","authors":"Emilia Bea Pérez","doi":"10.30444/CB.114","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses the situation of childbirth in general and home birth in particular from a legal perspective. Taking the context of the social, health and bioethical crisis brought about by Covid-19 as a starting point, we examine the principles that should guide birth care and analyse obstetric violence as denial of these principles. In light of abuse of medicalisation and medical interventionism, it seeks to find the best ways to humanise and dignify the care for the whole birth process. To this end, we consider the main pronouncements on the subject by international and domestic institutions and courts, as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, with emphasis on rulings concerning home births, which deal with possible violations of rights and, in particular, the right to respect for private and family life.</p>","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.114","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article discusses the situation of childbirth in general and home birth in particular from a legal perspective. Taking the context of the social, health and bioethical crisis brought about by Covid-19 as a starting point, we examine the principles that should guide birth care and analyse obstetric violence as denial of these principles. In light of abuse of medicalisation and medical interventionism, it seeks to find the best ways to humanise and dignify the care for the whole birth process. To this end, we consider the main pronouncements on the subject by international and domestic institutions and courts, as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, with emphasis on rulings concerning home births, which deal with possible violations of rights and, in particular, the right to respect for private and family life.
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La revista Cuadernos de Bioética, órgano oficial de la Asociación Española de Bioética y Ética Médica, publica cuatrimestralmente artículos y recensiones bibliográficas sobre todas las áreas de la bioética: fundamentación, ética de la investigación, bioética clínica, biojurídica, etc. Estos proceden de los aceptados en la revisión tutelada por los editores de la revista como de otros que por encargo el comité editorial solicite a sus autores. La edicion de la revista se financia con las aportaciones de los socios de AEBI.