A vulnerabilidade das gestantes negras no sistema de saúde pública do Brasil: o racismo obstétrico

Abstract

This research addresses the vulnerable condition of black pregnant women seeking access to public health policies in Brazil, in the face of an ongoing colonial project, marked by racism and sexism as structures of Brazilian society. This is theoretical and documentary research that, through a hypothetical-deductive method, addresses pregnancy as an event that integrates the process of becoming a mother, from the perspective of black women, crossed by race, class and gender oppression. To this end, the tool of intersectionality is used to analyze the concept of vulnerability and the principle of respect for vulnerabilities, relating them to the theoretical constructions of bioethics of protection, bioethics of intervention, as well as critical bioethics of feminist inspiration. Going through concepts such as biopower, biopolitics and necropolitics, the research presents the notion of obstetric racism and relates the situation of maternal death of black women in the Brazilian public health system to the genocide of the black population.