Childbearing Rights 1-10 Flashcards
1
Every woman has the right to health care before, during, and after pregnancy and childbirth.
2
Every woman and infant has the right to receive care that is consistent with current scientific evidence about benefits and risks.
3
Every woman has the right to choose a midwife or a physician as her maternity care provider.
4
Every woman has the right to choose her birth setting from the full range of safe options available in her community, on the basis of complete, objective information about benefits, risks, and costs of these options.
5
Every woman has the right to receive all or most of her maternity care for a single caregiver or small group of caregivers with whom she can establish a relationship. Every woman has the right to leave her maternity caregiver and select another.
6
Every woman has the right to information about the professional identity and qualification of those involved with her care, and to know when those involved are trainees.
7
Every woman has the right to communicate with caregivers and receive all care in privacy. She also has the right to have all personal information treated according to standards of confidentiality.
8
Every woman has the right to receive maternity care that identifies and addresses social and behavior factors that affect her health and that of her baby.
9
Every woman has the right to full and clear information about benefits, risks, and costs of the procedures, drugs, and treatments offered to her, and of all other reasonable options, including no intervention.
10
Every woman has the right to accept or refuse procedures, drugs, tests, and treatments, and to have her choices honored. She has the right to change her mind.
