What is Obstetric Violence?

From the Appendix of Anatomy of a Self-Hating Black Woman

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What is Obstetric Violence?

Encourage leaders across the country to create specific legal remedies that address Obstetric & Gynecological Violence.

According to obstetricjustice.org Obstetric Violence is an umbrella term for:

• verbal, emotional, physical sexual, psychological abuse & violation

• failure to meet professional standards of care

• racism, white supremacy, colonialism

• misogyny, cisheterosexism, transphobia

• bias, stigma, discrimination, bigotry [ableism, fatphobia, all the -isms]

• prioritizing care provider’s agenda

• institutional betrayal

• threats, lies, forced & coerced procedures

• violating right to bodily autonomy & integrity

• disregarding embodied knowledge, dismissing & ignoring patient concerns

• one-size-fits-all pathologization

• medical paternalism

• absence of trauma informed care as a universal precaution

• disdain for physiological processes

• health system constraints

• preventable morbidity & mortality

• lack of informed choice & consent

• policy & routine over “evidence-based” practice

• gaslighting, victim blaming, lack of accountability