WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, CNT-ait: Anarchosyndicalisme! #181 - Who says she killed him?[2] (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This Saturday, March 11, 120 people gathered in a dark room were able to enjoy

the very beautiful film by Béatrice Pollet. You haven't seen anything either.
This film evokes a very difficult subject: what society, justice, the police and
the media, just like medicine, still today call the denial of pregnancy. ---- A
woman undergoes a state in which her body does not transmit essential
information. She has a flat stomach. Suddenly some spasms, blood. She thinks she
just emptied herself. Something falling; this something will be wrapped up, then
abandoned on a trash can, and luckily found by chance during a nighttime walk of
a neighbor's dog. For her, in a state of amazement, no intelligible understanding
of the situation. For justice, for the police, for the media, there is an
attempted murder of anyone under the age of 15.

This film retraces the hard and trying path that this woman and her lawyer will
then take towards a very hypothetical acquittal. The director, far from any
pathos, forgets nothing about the situation and her objective. Questioning the
facts, just the facts, until we recognize that we do not know how to respond
either in medical terms or in police or judicial terms to this event. In a
kindness, the characters evolve and show us a family environment, banal and
loving, a police and justice at work without complacency.

Clean, documented film, remarkable performance as an actress and actor,
everything rings true. I stop here, I have already said too much for those who
would like to go see it. But the icing on the cake, beyond the screening, was the
debate that ensued between the director and the audience. Remarkably, the
applause at the end of the final credits despite the seriousness of the subject
and the presence of almost all the spectators in the discussions to come.

* "Why the word "denial" when this film is the plea for the absence of awareness
of this state, without convincing elements that can invalidate it? A doctor
committed to the recognition of this condition proposes the abandonment of these
odious terms "denial of pregnancy"; then speaks to her of "Unperceived pregnancy.»
* "Criminal law is supposed to protect the person from social vindictiveness and
guarantee the presumption of innocence. Why this title? The "You" and "You" of
the title? You too haven't seen anything is an address to the viewer who also saw
nothing except a flat stomach in the first images. So if condemnation there must
be, why only the woman is condemned without condemnation from those around her?»
* Loneliness of the woman, totally isolated in the judicial machine,
interrogations and expertise, undergoing a "collection of extreme violence"
during the police and judicial journey (cf: personal and poignant testimony in
the room of a spectator).

The French Association for the Recognition of Denial of Pregnancy, founded by Dr
Félix Navarro, public health doctor and early whistleblower,[3], bringing
together doctors and lawyers, psychologists, midwives, educators and volunteers-,
broke this isolation to its full extent by taking its full part in the trials on
which it moved. Unfortunately, the association is currently dormant. "We would
have to fill this void by relaunching it..." seems to be the feeling of the room.

* Some reported examples of denial of pregnancy:
"During gynecological visits for peripateticians, when the gynecologist announced
to them an 8-month pregnancy, those who did not believe in it remained with their
flat stomach and unfortunately found themselves faced with total denial the
following month. Those who believed in it, within 24 hours, the belly transformed
and swelled.
Here, the denial of pregnancy works the opposite of a nervous pregnancy. The body
functions and the head does not believe in it. (Cf.: Testimony of a member of the
association in the room)
Woman who, after a sports competition, feels pain and then goes into denial.
The director also mentions the examples to follow:
"In Afghanistan, a soldier in combat....

In prison, following a sentence for "infanticide," a woman is suddenly seized
with pain in her cell.
In front of the prison staff, who also saw nothing coming, she has just redone a
denial of pregnancy!!!»
The societal:
* "When a child dies, society owes him justice. When medicine does not know what
to say, we go back and replace the problem at the level of the legal-police
officer. But does this have to happen at the assizes? We have to find something
else, another space.»
* "Beyond women and the improperly named denial of pregnancy, we live in an era
and area where we must master everything. But life is a phenomenon that for the
time being is not controllable. Neuroscience tells us that what is controllable
in brain function is at the level of the prefrontal cortex and therefore that the
conscious part is 5% and that the remaining 95% operate at the level of the
unconscious system. However, we live in a society that remains unable to accept
the loss of mastery and control. We are there for the unperceived pregnancy. A
bit like the day of the discovery of the interactions of particles in physics
which was going to call into question all Newtonian physics by realizing that
there was something else.»

So we stay with the known: we criminalize, we make a scapegoat feel guilty by
clearing customs, we have news items that sell. Grégory cases, Courgeault
case.... Infanticides.... From sensational to unbearable.

A few numbers to finish:
* No conviction statistics.
* In 2009, in the Quotidien des médecins, one could already read:
"Pregnancy denial is a" perfectly quantifiable medical reality, "says Dr. Félix
Navarro, president of the AFRDG (French Association for the recognition of
pregnancy denial). The denial of pregnancy is said to be "partial" when its
lifting occurs from twenty weeks (five months) and before the end of the
pregnancy. It is "total" when it lasts throughout the pregnancy and is only
lifted at the time of delivery. According to studies carried out in Germany,
Austria and the United States, there would be partial denial of pregnancy for 400
to 500 births and total denial of pregnancy for 2,500 births. A frequency higher
than that of the risk of trisomy (1/700) or spina bifida (1/1,500), for which
real prevention policies are put in place, underlines the AFRDG....»[4]

* The maternity hospital of the CHU Jeanne de Flandres in Lille states the number
of 1,500 to 3,000 women concerned per year.
* 80% of the women concerned live with a partner.
* 50% had undetected maternity pregnancies.

To conclude, I repeat here that of the debate, presented by a fellow traveler of
Félix, by inviting Félix Navarro among us:

"It seems to me that in this whole story, we talk a lot about monsters, and if
there is a monster, it is not necessarily on the mother's side, but sometimes on
the judicial machine.»[5]

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