By year 2030 to notably reduce maternal mortality by advocating to improve perinatal care standards as significant contributors to reducing maternal mortality.
Commitment description:Reservation:
Above all, we want to clearly state, that we do not agree on the language proposed by Organizers of the Summit, especially on:
- the term „sexual and reproductive health and rights”, which was never accepted by the International Community. As the ICPD PA, as well as SDGs, clearly state there is no separate category of sexual rights. We only accept the term „sexual and reproductive health and sexual rights”.
- using the term „safe abortion” to promote abortion and to exert pressure on member states to legalize abortion or to withdraw abortion laws from criminal codes.
- promotion of medical abortion.
We want to remind, that according to the ICPD PoA abortion should never be promoted as a method of family planning and all countries and non-governmental organizations have a duty to reduce the number of conducted abortions.
The aim of the presented Commitment is to fully implement the ICPD PoA, which states in par. 8.22 that all countries must expand the provision of maternal health services in the context of primary health care. The Ordo Iuris Institute commits to advocate the introduction of perinatal care standards as a legally binding document at a national level. We will provide expert and data-based knowledge to governmental bodies by participating in public consultation, providing reports and introducing proposals of legal, financial and social measures that shall improve medical, physiotherapeutic and dietetic assistance during and after pregnancy as well as during delivery. We will advocate inter alia to reduce the number of unnecessary medical interventions during delivery, open wider access to pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of alleviating labor pain, provide lactation aid and facilitate breastfeeding, provide psychological counselling for young mothers.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionThe Ordo Iuris Institute will provide expert data to national and international bodies concerning improvements in the field of perinatal care standards.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
