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| Zashnain @bedlamfury: Maternal Health & Stigma, which is more <b>...</b> Posted: 19 Jul 2011 07:03 PM PDT I have been truly blessed with a good and solid upbringing, married to a loving husband, given the best care (mentally and physically), amenities and furnished with sound information; during my two pregnancies, pre & post and now having a comfortable lifestyle with my two precious girls. The fact is, not all are as lucky as I am. What about a woman who had been raped and found to be pregnant and there is no man beside her ("Woman"). What if she is not blessed with a good upbringing (broken family) and do not have comfortable means to live her life. What about this Woman? Who will care for her? Who will assure her of her health, mentally and physically, throughout the pregnancy should she choose to have the child, without a man by her side? As a woman, a mother, a wife and a human being, I strongly feel that the woman should be able to seek help and others (be it her friends /family / government bodies / NGO's) should and must be able to help her without any questions or stigma. But that is not the case in Malaysia at least. Kes buang anak is prevalent here and on a daily basis, there are reported cases of babies being found in all imaginable places. The latest which I've come across: 29 June 2011 Yes, it is inhumane / wrong / haram / illegal etc for us to kill another human being. But have we really thought about why the babies are being disposed mercilessly by the parents? One of the many reasons which may have crossed the mother's/father's mind when she / the supposed father have disposed the baby could have been the stigma attached to the mother/father (more so the mother) should she have the baby. It could also be that she is not ready to have the baby. She could also be really young and totally unprepared. She could be financially unstable. She could have all other possible reasons. But is she to be solely blamed? Lets not start questioning about the father who had impregnated her. Its about the mother that I'm much more concerned with. Again, push aside the religious / moral issues. Lets ask ourselves, was the mother mentally stable when she decided to abandon her baby. Was she assisted in any and all ways before she did the inhumane act of killing her flesh and blood? Was she given an option to abort the baby? Was she informed at all of her rights to have a legal abortion? Highly likely she was not. An article from the World Health Organization calls safe, legal abortion a "fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live" and unsafe abortion a "silent pandemic" Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. It encompasses the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care in order to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Yes, we have the government bodies / agencies / NGO's all around to offer assistance to women/mothers. Maybe in certain cases the bodies were very effective. Yes, maybe. In other cases, maybe no. I'm not here to point fingers to any parties but merely to give an insight to a mother's struggles in life and the perceptions that are thrown at us front left and centre. Give us a chance, give us the opportunity, give us the ability to exercise our right please. Our right to have Maternal Health and not the Stigma. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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