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Ethical dilemma for Moral Case Deliberation (MCD)
Ethical dilemma for Moral Case Deliberation on when “respect” interrupts care, exploring autonomy, newborn rights, and responsibility in safeguarding physiological birth processes.
Obstetric Violence as Gender-Based Violence: what it is, how it is perceived, and how it can be addressed
Ester Massó Guijarro, a member of the IPOV – Respectful Care consortium through the University of Granada, authors the chapter titled Decolonizing Bioethics, Feminizing Public Health: Obstetric Violence as Epistemic Injustice. Her proposal is, in itself, an intervention: it not only describes the phenomenon but examines the conditions that make it possible to recognize it, name it, and transform it.
One-day reflection workshop on respectful maternity care using moral case deliberation (MCD)
This workshop is specifically designed for the final phase of midwifery education, when students are close to entering professional practice and can benefit from deeper ethical reflection.
Cesarean Quilt · Renée Hoffman
Birth Philosophy Seminar: IPOV–Respectful Care, a Collective Construction
You are invited to take part in this online seminar, designed as a space for dialogue and co-construction. Tuesday 13 January 2026, 16:00–17:30 (CET).
Obstetric violence, low natality rates, maternal deaths and misogyny
A critical reflection on how panic over declining birth rates fuels misogynistic narratives, obscures maternal deaths, and connects to the structural roots of obstetric violence.
Obstetric violence, rights, and knowledge
The coordination between Nacer con Amor and IPOV researchers (UDELAR(6) – San Isidro Mother and Child Hospital) makes it possible to envision a shared regional horizon: building a Latin American pedagogy of respectful childbirth that draws on local knowledge, territorial experiences, and the transformative power of healthcare teams.
Obstetric violence and the judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico
In this post, members of the Obstetric Violence Reading Group reflect on Paola Sesia’s chapter titled “Naming, framing and shaming through obstetric violence: A critical approach to judicialisation of maternal health rights violations in Mexico” in Gamlin, J et al (eds) Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America (2020) 222-247.
HIV, Gender and Respectful Birth: Dismantling Stigma and Guaranteeing Rights in Perinatal Care
This article examines, from a gender and human rights perspective, how these forms of violence emerge in perinatal care, how they affect the emotional and clinical experience of women living with HIV, and which institutional and cultural transformations are needed to build a fully respectful and inclusive model of care.
Project IPOV RESPECTFULCARE has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Staff Exchange programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.