bachelorThesis
Interrupción voluntaria del embarazo: percepciones en estudiantes de la carrera de Medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca. Período marzo-agosto 2020
Fecha
2021-09-13Autor
Vásquez Parra, Tatiana Samantha
Institución
Resumen
Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy, in contexts of criminalization represents a
risk to women's lives in Ecuador, if it is not proven that pregnancy is product of rape, it is
not possible to access health services to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, so that
punishability does not dissuade women to not abort, on the contrary, it forces them to do at
home or clandestine, illegal places or unsanitary places.
Health workers, is an important sector to study in relation to the exercise of
women's reproductive rights, since in their professional practice they encounter cases of
Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy, so it is necessary to establish a correlation with what
the future doctors from the University of Cuenca state in their discourses on maternity and
paternity, linking it with their religious-catholic beliefs, that represent a notorious influence
in relation to the legal and social sanction of VIP.
The lack of knowledge in relation to reproductive rights, as well as the normative
framework around the use of conscientious objection and the care of obstetric emergencies,
and the reproduction of gender stereotypes in the discourse on maternity and paternity by
health workers, represent an obstacle to the exercise of autonomy of women's bodies.