Family planning and indigenous people: a brief essay on sterilization in the indigenous territory of Aldeia Velha.
Family planning. Tubal ligation. Indigenous woman. Sothern Bahia.
The work is built through the case of collective sterilization in the Caramuru-Paraguaçu Indigenous Reserve. The case occurred when the then candidate for Federal Deputy and doctor, sterilized all the women of the Bahetá village for the reason of exchanging votes. In this sense, this research focuses on the history of indigenous health in Brazil and the consequences of the Family Planning Law and its regulations made in 1996, as well as the legal issue of Family Planning in indigenous communities. The research has an ethnographic approach, and its starting point is Aldeia Velha, located in Arraial D'Ajuda, Porto Seguro district. Its purpose is to understand the difficulties that women from an Aldeia Velha encounter when undergoing tubal ligation surgery; understand the entire bureaucratic path for indigenous people to get tubal ligation through SESAI. Therefore, I sought to list this path from the perspective of indigenous women first and from the perspective of health professionals.