We call for protection of women’s rights:
- Guaranteeing family friendly employment terms and conditions affecting morale, recruitment retention of women including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people.
- Fertility control In Vitro Fertilisation, contraception and abortion access: thus protecting women’s mental health, finances and family stability
- Safe childbirth for every woman. Risk assessment for home births (evidence of deaths increasing)
- Reverse the outsourcing of maternity services.
- Increased support for carers, to improve health and protect people from poverty.
- Integrate the care system with the National Health Service to be free at the point of use, paid for by taxation.
- Employ nurses in care homes and improve training and terms for care workers.
Equality:
We call for protection of women’s rights with respect to equality which addresses:
- the long-term impact of domestic abuse, in the widest context, on health
- the impact of gynaecological intervention that harms women internally e.g. mesh implants and externally e.g. Female Genital Mutilation.
- the impact of caring on mothers of children who have specific and higher needs over their lifetime
- the effect on women refugees and European Union migrants of the new United Kingdom Comprehensive Sickness Insurance regulations involving healthcare charging
- the quality of and accessibility to women’s mental health services, including primary post-partum treatments.
This is to be presented to the Labour Party Women’s Conference 2017