After Indigenous Women Give Birth on Clinic Lawns, Mexico Lawmakers Take Action Mexico News Daily
go to original October 2, 2014

An October 2013 issue of La Razon de Mexico featured Irma López Aurelio on the cover, with her newborn and the umbilical cord still attached.

It was nearly a year ago that a mother gave birth to her baby on a piece of lawn just outside a clinic in a town in Oaxaca. A passerby snapped a photo with a telephone and Irma became famous after it circulated widely on Facebook and Twitter.

The clinic claimed they were understaffed and that there was a communication problem with the indigenous woman, but the town’s mayor said it was the second time a birth had taken place outside the facility. A week later two other women reported the same experience at the same clinic.

In many cases women are denied help because haven’t the resources or medical coverage. Last week federal legislators passed a bill that will require hospitals to offer emergency obstetric treatment regardless of whether a patient has insurance.

Women’s rights activists told the Associated Press in March that they had documented 20 recent cases of women giving birth outside hospitals where staff said there was no room.

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