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Right To Information And Access To Sexual And Reproductive Rights Of Women Throughout The Life Cycle Of Your

Original Language Title: Direito à informação e acesso aos direitos sexuais e reprodutivos das mulheres ao longo do seu ciclo de vida

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PORTUGUESE COMMUNIST PARTY

Parliamentary Group

DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 77 /XI/1ª

By the right to information and access to sexual and reproductive rights by the

women over the course of their life cycle

Portugal is endowed with an important heritage legislat ivo in what concerne to the

sexual rights and reprodut ives. Heritage that was being edif iced over the years

after the April 25, 1974 and whose most brutal gap was won with the approval, at 8

of March 2007, of a law of plummeting the voluntary interruption of the

pregnancy, corollary of a prolonged situation of unjust and dramatit ica penalization of the

sexual health and reprodut iva of successive generations of women vivid abortion fines

clandest ino.

Sexual and reprodut sexual rights are an integral part of social rights of our

time, it should not be mere formal or only partially fulfilled rights.

Before they require a special responsibility of the politic power-Assembly of the

Republic and Government-in its spheres of competence, in the garant ia of its integral

compliance and implementation.

Lamentable delays in the implementation of sex education in schools do not

Notwithstanding it was passed 26 years ago the first law on sex education.

Other segments of women are also affected that, over the course of their cycle

of life, have greater dif iculties of access to health as a result of the non-existence of

family doctors and the lack of other health professionals.

It stands out, however, the paradox between the fundamentals that led to close

public maternity wards for not carrying out 1500 parts per year, when such a requirement

it is not imposed on the operation of the private units, because that means icing your

clasp.

Family health units do not comply with the object ivo de minimise the number of

users without family doctors; there are persisting lack of health centres as well as the

schedules unadjusted to the needs of women who need to resort to

these services.

This framework does not deny the effort and the posit examples of health centres and others

public services that provide an important intervention in the area of sexual health and

reprodut iva, before it imposes that such examples extend to the entire national territory.

The Portuguese Communist Part, when marking the March 8, International Day of the

Woman and the centenary of her proclamation, highlights the importance of strengthening the

sexual and reprodut rights of the woman throughout her life, from the menarch,

passing through menopause to old age.

Still in the scope of sexual health and reprodut iva, the CFP has been presenting several

initiat ivas legislat ivas, garant going not only to the efect ivity of sex education, such as

promotion of sexual and reprodut health and the protection of motherhood and parenthood

while social functions, of which they are an example:

-The plummeting of the voluntary termination of pregnancy, up to 12 weeks, the

request of the woman;

-The enhancement of the rights of people living in de facto union;

-The garant was going to follow up by the future father to the pregnant woman during childbirth;

-The right of special leave in the situations of risk pregnancies;

-The enhancement of the garant ias of the right to reprodut health iva;

-The protection of mothers and parents students;

-The garant was going from access to emergency medical contracept medications;

-The adoption of recommendations so that it can be ut ilized in units

hospitalars the human use medicine Mifégyne (Prilula RU 486);

-The regulation of medically assist procreation techniques ida;

-The adoption of measures to strengthen the protection of motherhood-paternity;

-The inst itution and regulation of a new family benefits scheme;

-The creation of a social allowance of maternity-paternity.

26 years returned since the publication of the first law enshrining the right to

sexual education and family planning, it should matter to mention some of the indicators of

health that underscores the need and urgency of the effective implementation of the law. From

agreement with the Report of the Department of Infectious Diseases, of the Unit of

Reference and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Inst itute National Health Dr. Ricardo

Jorge, December 31, 2008 (ult we have available data), find themselves

not if icated 34888 cases of HIV / AIDS infection in the different stadiums of infection

(for 32491 cases in 2007).

According to that report, "higher number of cases not if icated (" cases

accrued ") corresponds to infection in individuals referring drug use by

via endovenosa or "addictions", constituting 42.5% (14835 14835) of

all not if ications, reflect by going the initial trend of the epidemic in the Country. The number

of cases associated with the infection by sexual transmission (heterosexual) represents the

second group with 40.0% percent of records and sexual transmission (homosexual

masculine) presents 12.3% of cases; the remaining forms of transmission

correspond to 5.2% of the total. The cases not if icated from HIV/AIDS infection, which

refer as a probable form of infection to sexual transmission (heterosexual),

present an evolent evolut rising trend. "

Already the health data of young people, published in 2006 by the Maternal Health Division,

Infant il and the Adolescents of the Directorate General of Health, despite the trend of

decrease in pregnancy, maternity and adolescent paternity, " with respect to the

younger ages, found, in the 20-24 years, a slowdown in expression

of this trend [of decrease], and there has been, including, a slight increase in the

years of 1999 and 2000; in the group 15 to -19 years, the decreasing progression of the respect ivo

value appears to swell to part go from 1996, with slight oscillation in a sent gone and

in another. ", in what for motherhood concerne.

According to that study, in 2002, " the parents presented, as a general rule, a degree of

schooling lower than that of mothers, in both age groups studied. Of mothers

with less than 20 years, about a fifth finish, at most, the 1 th cycle of the

basic education (1.7% did not know how to read or write). In the same age group, the parents who

were in equal circumstances accounted for a quarter of the total (2.1% did not know

read nor write). In respect of completing compulsory education, in the case

of mothers under the age of 20, less than half can achieve it and, in the group

of the 20-24-year-old, about 56% was in these circumstances; in the case of the parents, the

observed values were lower than the icated verif in the mothers, in the order of the 7%, in

both age groups. "

With regard to the condition of mothers and fathers in the face of work were notorious

differences between men and women, in the two age groups. In 2002, " verif icou-se

that, in the group of those under 20, 61% of mothers found themselves in the group " no

act iva "(only 29% corresponded to the item" employed "), whereas in the group

age above, the situation changed, being 60% of the mothers in the condition of

"employed" and 32% in that of "non-act iva". In the case of men, in the group of the minors

of 20 years, 77% was "employed", value that increased to 92% in group 20-24

years; were in the condition of "no act ivo" 18% of the parents under 20 years and 5%

of the 20-24 years. "

According to the Directorate General of Health " it is found that, part ir of the 20 years of

age, the risk of maternal death by each nado-vivo increases rapidly with the

age, moving from 4.8 per 100000, in pregnant 20-24-year-olds, to 180 per

100000 in pregnant with more than 44 years. That is, a pregnant woman with more than 44 years

has a risk of dying about 37 times higher than that of a pregnant woman aged 20 a to 24.

The risk of death in pregnant adolescents (<20 years) is 9.9 per 100000, double the

risk in pregnant women of 20-24 years. The results are prat richly identical when if

divides the number of maternal deaths by the sum of the swims-alive with the

swims-dead, in an approximation to the concept of the risk of death by pregnancy "

(Report on maternal deaths in Portugal 2001-2007, Directorate General of Health).

Such a Report, points out as conclusions that " part of the health strategies for

eliminate preventable maternal deaths, should go through: strengthening the service network

at the different levels of delivery, as well as the art iculture between you and your

accessibility; ensuring that obstetrics services have conditions

essential logist for the minimization of MM (availability of fast access to

surgical block, to blood products 24 hours a day, unit of care

intensive coupled, internista/intensivist support); intensif icing homogeneity

of the training in service for all professionals; strengthening support for groups

vulnerable and implement the mult idisciplinary cooperation in risky situations

known or suspect ".

The presentation of this draft resolution, on this date, stems not only from the fact of the

CFP to have over decades the responsibility of diverse initiat ivas legislat ivas

in this area (for example, the intervention of the Parliamentary Committee on Condition

Feminine, in 1987, by the voice of Maria Alda Nogueira, who proceeded to the presentation to the

Plenum of the Assembly of the Republic of a Report on the Status of Women

in Portugal, in which it highlighted non-compliance with education legislation

sexual, family planning, among other aspects), and by the fair claims of the

women's organisations presented over the years to the Assembly of the

Republic.

The Assembly of the Republic, in accordance with Article 156 (b) of the

Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, decides to recommend to the Government that:

1-Garanta the implementation of Sexual Education in all schools of education

basic and secondary, through the training of teachers, and the garant ia of the means

for the correct functioning of the support offices, and education nuclei for the

health;

2-Reinforce the existence in all Health Centres of specic queries for

Young people, created by law in March 1976 a to pair the reinforcement of material means and

humans on the way to garant to go to full information and services accessible to all

young people;

3-Create conditions for the vaccination that protects against viruses such as HPV

(Human Papillomavirus is widely publicized and free for all

women;

4-Garanta and disseminate to women the importance of periodical screenings

performed at the National Health Service (SNS), namely mammograms and

mammary echoes, cytologies and bone densitometries;

5-Recognize and f iscalize the widespread access of all pregnant women to the

medical follow-up (minimum 5 queries) in the SNS as well as the exams

indispensable-DPN (Diagnóst ico PreNatal), blood and urine analysis, control of the

immunity or non-existence of diseases that put at risk the pregnancy and the fetus

(rubella, toxoplasmosis, syf ilis, hepat ite B, HIV/AIDS, etc.);

6-Garanta compliance with the Labour Code and the Contract Regime at

Public functions as regards maternity and paternity rights, extending the

dispensation not only for prenatal consultations as waivers for sessions

of Preparation for the Parto by the Psycho-Profilact Method ico, as well as the right of the

parents workers three waivers for follow-up to pregnant, garant going the

right to full remuneration borne by the ent age of the employer;

7-adopt measures art conveyed between the Ministries of Health and Science, Technology

and Higher Education for garant to go that the Higher Schools of Nursing (ESE)

include Preparation Training for Parto by the Psycho-Profilact Method ico;

8-Garanta the correct application of the Act on Voluntary Interruption of Gravity,

either through the suppression of material and human caries, or through the

compliance with all psychological support procedures and forwarding

for family planning consultation, in the ten days after the intervention;

9-Create urgent measures for the application of the law on Medically Procreation

Assist ida (PMA), approved in July 2006; taking into account that the high costs

of these treatments in the private sector and the long waiting lists in the public sector

are a factor of exclusion of hundreds of users;

10-Garanta the proper and regular medical and psychological accompaniment, at the SNS

in the prevention and treatment of menopausal-related situations,

particularly those of afrontings, incont inency, osteoporosis, irritability,

insomnia, sexual disinterest, or Alzheimer's disease;

11-Ensure in the SNS, especially in the primary health units, the existence of

geriatric services, corresponding to the specic needs of women in this

phase of your life.

Assembly of the Republic, March 8, 2010

The Deputies,

RITA RATO; BERNARDINO SOARES; ANTÓNIO FILIPE; MIGUEL TIAGO; JOHN

OLIVEIRA; AUGUSTINE LOPES; HONORIUS NEW