Intervention on the platform of Senator Susana Zatarain García to present an initiative that adds and reforms various provisions of article 123 of the Constitution regarding benefits to pregnant women.
October 29, 2024
Version of the intervention on the platform by Senator Susana Zatarain García, to present an initiative that adds and reforms various provisions of article 123 of the Constitution regarding benefits to pregnant women
Thank you very much, President.
Comrades and fellow Senators:
Today I stand before you as the daughter of a great woman.
A woman who sacrificed her working life to have a family, to dedicate the best of herself to her children.
And this testimony is a testimony to the quality and how important it is for women to have all the support they need to get ahead, to be able to have all the influence necessary for a family to be strong.
All my recognition to the hard-working Mexican mothers, who with their loving work not only contribute to the economic growth of our nation, but also to the training of the best Mexicans.
Motherhood is not a simple thing and, from here, from the legislature, it is our duty to contribute to the establishment of regulatory mechanisms that allow women to be guaranteed universal access to reproductive health services with the aim of minimizing the possibility of that becoming a mother becomes a health problem and even a death problem.
Today, maternal mortality, defined by the World Health Organization, as the death of a woman while she is pregnant or within forty-two days after the end of childbirth, regardless of the duration and location of childbirth, caused by Any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or the management of pregnancy, but not due to accidental or incidental causes, constitutes one of the main causes of death among women of reproductive age globally.
According to the United Nations Population Fund, more than 1,500 women die every day in the world due to complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. It is an alarming figure.
Today in Mexico the maternal mortality ratio, calculated, is 25.6 deaths per one hundred thousand estimated births and until the first week of this month of October.
And in Baja California Sur we had one death mainly due to this cause of pregnancy or childbirth, also related to obstetric hemorrhage and hypertensive diseases.
Health professionals have classified maternal mortality as an avoidable tragedy, since they agree that the causes associated with this phenomenon could be prevented and treated in a timely manner to prevent a fatal outcome.
But how could this tragedy prevent more women from dying as a result of pregnancy or childbirth? This is the proposal that I come to present to you here in plenary today.
The implementation of a comprehensive care scheme for women who are mothers that guarantees them access to high-quality care during pregnancy, childbirth and after it, based not only on their dignified and respectful treatment, but on the need to preserve your health, as well as that of the newborn, but not only with physical health, but also with mental health.
This will only have to be achieved by assuming a true commitment to society in the design and execution of strategies that ensure universal access to both prenatal care by trained personnel and effective interventions and programs in line with the current living conditions of working women. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate this commitment in our constitutional text.
That is why, convinced of my commitment to the working women of Mexico and Baja California Sur, who exercise motherhood, and my duty also as Senator of the Republic, on behalf of the parliamentary group of National Action, I submit to the consideration of this Honorable Chamber the initiative with a draft decree by which reforms and various provisions are added to article 123 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, regarding benefits to pregnant women.
This with the purpose of establishing that in the medical facilities of the public health sector of the federal government and the governments of all the federal entities of Mexico, women receive free of charge, during the gestation period, medical consultations, laboratory, medications, gynecological care, psychological and psychiatric care, as well as labor and delivery free of charge.
They will also have access to emergency obstetric care.
That is, it is a constitutional right that all…
President Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña: Your time is up, Senator Zatarain.
Senator Susana del Carmen Zatarain García: Women during pregnancy and postpartum receive medical care, laboratory care and everything they require to prevent them from having any problems or unfortunate consequences for this reason.
That’s all, President.
And thank you very much.
yes, yes
