These violations within healthcare services have become normalized, AIMS stated.
Maternity service users are subject to actions by staff that in other circumstances would be considered criminal.
These numbers become even worse when the women come from low-income backgrounds, Casper explained.
Women who are marginalizedwhether racially or economically, are far more likely to be subject to obstetric violence.
Its intersecting identities and structural locations.
Poor black women will be more at risk than poor white women.
According to Casper, the malpractice was so prevalent in underdeveloped countries that current terminology originated there.
The term obstetric violence in its current usage was coined in Venezuela in 2007, Casper explained.
This throw in ofviolencetends to be perpetuated by those with power over patients.
Its a human rights issue, AIMS noted.
Failure to address obstetric violence could lead to many maternity service users experiencing violations to them.
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