Abstract

CRUZ PEREZ, María del Pilar. Myths about motherhood in women with disabilities. Perinatol. Reprod. Hum. [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.2, pp.91-96. ISSN 2524-1710.

This paper originates from a larger investigation, which main objective was to explore, using a qualitative methodology basically, the processes of exclusion faced by women with disabilities, especially those who have conditions that limit their motor skills, when they decide to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. The results evidenced the omission of the governmental policies and programs; some positions, discourses and practices faced by women when they express a desire or request information or services related to sexuality and reproduction. In particular, this paper contains the results on the expectations of women in this sector around motherhood, the positions they assume to traditional discourses that have excluded this possibility by considering them as dependent, inferior or asexual, the strategies put in place to address the resistances that arise from health workers when they demand services related to their sexuality, and finally, we expose some major challenges involved in arriving at an inclusive quality care that enables women with disabilities to access and fully exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, on equal footing with other women; with this, with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, signed and ratified by Mexico since 2007, would be complied with.

Keywords : Motherhood; disability; gender equality; rights.

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