How to Assert Homebirth Rights and to Open the First Birth Center: Argentine Midwife’s Experience

Marina Lembo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Speaker of the Second International Online Festival on Natural Birth and Blessed Conception 'Miracle in the Heart: Conceiving.Believing.Transforming.' (December 3, 2015).

In Russia and Ukraine homebirth midwives exist outside the law. That is why the experience of Argentina about the legalization of homebirths and the defence of women's rights for homebirth might be crucially useful for us.

In recent years in Argentina the model of childbirth care and health care has changed. Marina tells about it in her webinar:

• thanks to whom and what it has happened.
• how she manages to influence the moratorium of the law of the homebirths prohibition?
• which accosiations, organisations and funds it is necessary to found to lobby ideas with legal protection and recognition of home midwives and homebirths?
• which methods of communication with the Ministry of Health should be used: total confrontation or a dialogue and proved statistics database?
  
  Marina shares her invaluable experince, demonstrates films of the protests and tells about the results achieved.
  
  Translator: Irina Trani Gonzalez (Tenerife)