The human rights impact of gender stereotyping in the context of reproductive health care

dc.contributor.authorO’Connell, Ciara
dc.contributor.authorZampas, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T08:21:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractGender stereotypes surrounding women's reproductive health impede women's access to essential reproductive healthcare and contribute to inequality more generally. Stereotyping in healthcare settings impedes women's access to contraceptive information, services, and induced abortion, and lead to involuntary interventions in the context of sterilization. Decisions by human rights monitoring bodies, such as the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights’ case, IV v. Bolivia, which was a case concerned with the involuntary sterilization of a woman during childbirth, highlight how stereotypes in the context of providing health care can operate to strip women of their agency and decision‐making authority, deny them their right to informed consent, reinforce gender hierarchies and violate their reproductive rights. In the present article, IV v. Bolivia is examined as a case study with the objective being to highlight how, in the context of coercive sterilization, human rights law has been used to advance legal and ethical guidelines, including the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics’ (FIGO) own guidelines, on gender stereotyping and reproductive healthcare. The Inter‐American Court's judgment in IV v. Bolivia illustrates the important role FIGO's guidance can play in shaping human rights standards and provides guidance on the service provider's role and responsibility in eliminating gender stereotypes and upholding and fulfilling human rights.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentCentre for Human Rightsen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2020-01-01
dc.description.librarianhj2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijgoen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationO'Connell, C. & Zampas, C. 2019, 'The human rights impact of gender stereotyping in the context of reproductive health care', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 144, no. 1, pp. 116-121.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0020-7292 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1879-3479 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1002/ijgo.12693
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/67428
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWileyen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'The human rights impact of gender stereotyping in the context of reproductive health care', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 144, no. 1, pp. 116-121. 2019, doi : 10.1002/ijgo.12693. The definite version is available at : http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijgo.en_ZA
dc.subjectEthical standardsen_ZA
dc.subjectFIGO guidelinesen_ZA
dc.subjectForced sterilizationen_ZA
dc.subjectHuman rightsen_ZA
dc.subjectHuman rights lawen_ZA
dc.subjectInformed consenten_ZA
dc.subjectInter-American Court of Human Rightsen_ZA
dc.subjectStereotypesen_ZA
dc.titleThe human rights impact of gender stereotyping in the context of reproductive health careen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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