Our mission is feminist.
The Movement for Autonomy in Childbirth is a national feminist organization for the collective defense of the rights of women and people who give birth, as well as their families. The organization supports their autonomy in their peripregnancy journey and campaigns so that everyone has access to the health care of their choice.
To do this, here
are our major actions:
To educate and inform the public, women and pregnant women in particular, to support their full autonomy and ability to make informed choices.
To defend access to quality, universal, and free public perinatal services that are culturally adapted and meet people’s needs.
To promote reflection, consultation, and exchange between citizens’ groups and committees of users of the various reproductive health services.
Our Vision
The act of giving birth belongs to the woman or the person giving birth. A social transformation must take place to ensure that everyone has a respectful pregnancy experience, accompanied by the people of their choice, and that every family has access to midwifery services, regardless of the community in which they live.
Our Values
Inclusion
We value informing, supporting, mobilizing, employing, and advocating alongside a variety of women and people who give birth from a perspective that recognizes the intersectionality of oppression and struggles.
Empowerment
We value experiential knowledge and make quality information accessible from the perspective of autonomous popular education to increase people’s power to act on their peripregnancy journey.
Solidarity
We value being an autonomous community organization that collaborates with various groups – citizens, students, activists, feminists, institutions, and governments – from a social justice perspective.
Respecting Choices
We value defending the rights of those giving birth to be the primary decision maker about their care and to make informed choices right for them.
Feminism
We value being a feminist organization that fights for women’s rights, particularly the right to reproductive health, from a perspective of social transformation.
Join the movement to support childbirth with the power of choice.
Help us shape a world where mothers feel empowered and respected.
