(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #235 - Maternity Lilas: Free to birth and abortion (fr, pt)

It has been three years since the maternity des Lilas, including local start dusting 
obsolescence, strives to be rebuilt in Lilac. It is offering new and expectant parents 
respectful accompaniment of the body and the willingness of women. Collective manifest the 
Champs-Elys?es on 25 January. ---- It was a promise of Holland during his campaign: 
Maternity Lilac is rebuilt on a new site within the city. But government programs, "it 
promises drunks" project today is to outsource motherhood Montreuil, on the premises of 
another hospital ... Which are small, inadequate and just as antiquated as the current 
premises. Several issues make this betrayal a heavy blow in an area where public health is 
already struggling. ---- Already, any relocation will be accompanied by a social magnitude 
that everyone still unknown. 150 employee-es, we have no idea how many people could be 
left in the lurch. The most precarious and least skilled jobs are the first to be deleted.

Beyond that, move the maternity Montreuil returns to delete a nearby structure which 
provides a support for quality public who need it. And of course also involve the 
relocation of the disappearance abortion center, in a department where the demand for this 
type of medical procedure is high. Aux Lilas 1200 abortion is practiced by year and we put 
into practice the slogan of the right of women to control their own bodies, what will he 
do without this structure?

an act, a price

In general, Lilacs are a symbol of a way of working against the current modes of care and 
the race to profitability. The government uses the argument of a structural deficit of 
motherhood to justify its policy. This deficit is due to the fee for service medical 
community: since 2010, every medical procedure now has a price. And it goes without saying 
that abortion and childbirth related physiological little. However, the Lilac, it acts 
intentionally priced practical minimum values ??because the human support and alternatives 
to on-medical. To do this, motherhood is negative: it would do more cesareans, more 
surgery, only to eliminate a deficit? It is out of question for all staff.

For over ten years everything was done by the association Birth (which manages motherhood) 
to fill the absurd requirements of ARS: lean to a more medicalized maternity, increase the 
number of anesthetists, fill quotas are imposed (including the annual number of births, 
adjusted upwards each year). Despite the deaf ear of the ARS and the Department, 
especially in spite of sickness and exhaustion, employee-es, far from giving up, adapt and 
develop control strategies.

we are not tired es!

In a structure that does not initially has a highly developed trade union culture, 
initiatives have flourished at the beginning of the fight. If the official group includes 
politicians, trade unionists and the most qualified staff, all employee-es have developed 
mainly full of tools and actions with a certain dose of humor and creativity.

There was a calendar, stickers, hype and false deliveries direct to the Ministry doing 
their small effect. In July, several days camping in front of the minister were not enough 
to be heard. In September, a group of employee-generated clip art by diverting public 
song, with lyrics denouncing the hypocrisy of the left promises. And the fight does not 
run out of steam: the call of the collective, the pavement rebattra on January 25 on the 
Champs-Elys?es! Les Lilas, there is and will remain there!

Clems (AL Paris West)