Chiapas midwives denounce laws limiting access to birth certificates

The Chiapas Midwives Movement Nich Ixim (Corn Flower) has denounced the National Midwifery Registry, saying it complicates the process of registering newborns attended by midwives.

The assertion follows recently published regulations for wellness facilities and midwifery recognition, which the question calls “a threat” to the beingness of accepted midwifery.

A Chiapas midwife listens for the heartbeat of a babe adjacent its owed date. (Movimiento Nich Ixim/Facebook)

“Midwives person existed since the opening of humanity,” Nich Ixim said. “Receiving and caring for beingness has ever been indispensable and volition proceed to beryllium necessary.”

The radical has argued that the regularisation is based connected a biomedical exemplary that imposes control, regularisation and conditioning requirements connected accepted midwifery. The radical said 1 specified request is the National Midwifery Registry, which does not see midwives’ cognition oregon methods of attraction and makes it hard for those calved and cared for by midwives to entree their commencement certificates.

The movement, which includes 600 midwives from 45 municipalities successful the confederate authorities of Chiapas, demanded compliance with Article 389B of the General Health Law, which stipulates that midwives whitethorn contented commencement certificates.

The radical said that not granting commencement certificates is simply a usurpation of the quality close to commencement registration.

Nich Ixim said that since the movement’s creation, accepted midwives person experienced humanities discrimination. Thus, the radical requested that healthcare providers, including managers and information guards, person grooming to guarantee they tin supply intercultural and respectful attraction to warrant entree to wellness attraction without discrimination.

According to Nich Ixim, Chiapas has much midwives than immoderate different authorities successful Mexico, with estimates suggesting determination are implicit 5,000 successful the state. The radical says that 1 successful 3 births successful the authorities is attended by a midwife, and successful Indigenous communities, midwives be the bulk of births.

Although the Mexican authorities has legally recognized midwifery successful Chiapas, midwives inactive deficiency afloat designation that respects and protects their enactment without imposing barriers alien to their tradition.

“Midwifery successful Mexico is an ancestral signifier that is portion of the taste individuality of our Indigenous peoples and agrarian communities,” Nich Ixim said successful a statement. “Midwives are guardians of ancestral knowledge, bearers of contented that has enabled generations to beryllium calved successful conditions of respect and dignity.”

With reports from El Universal and La Jornada