Relações de poder e planejamento familiar: análise do programa de reprodução assistida no SUS para casais homoafetivos

Abstract

Assisted Reproduction is a set of practices used by medicine to aid human reproduction, through the manipulation of male and female gametes, and can be used by all individuals if they are capable. In order to ensure that the population has access to these techniques, the Unified Health System (SUS) has implemented a policy on access to assisted reproduction. The problem of this research is to understand how the policy of assisted reproduction in the SUS assists homosexual couples and its hypothesis is that there is a lack of assistance, considering the requirements for using the program. The aim of this study is to investigate how the assisted reproduction program in the SUS operates and how it is accessed by homosexual women. To achieve this, the methodology used was empirical research, with a qualitative bias, through research into ordinances and legislation that regulate reproductive rights and assisted reproduction, as well as an analysis of the Federal Constitution. In addition, the research was mediated by consulting scientific articles, books, publications and case law on the subject, as well as data obtained from hospitals in Rio Grande do Sul that have the policy. Based on the above, it became clear that there is a serious state omission in the family plans of homosexual women, so much so that the program that guarantees access to assisted reproduction techniques through the SUS cannot be used by them. There is therefore no doubt that the right to family planning is unconstitutional for these people, who are completely ignored by an outdated policy that does not take homosexual families into account