The Impact of Culture on the Phenomenon of Obstetric Violence as Gender-based Violence in Mexico
“Shut up and push”,[1] was the message received by Irma López Aurelio, an indigenous Mazatec woman, who gave birth on the grass outside a Health Center in Oaxaca, Mexico, due to insufficient beds.[2] She was not the first woman to give birth under such conditions of “obstetric violence”, in fact, for many women in Mexico, […]