Réflexions éthiques et place de la sage-femme auprès des victimes de viols

Rape raises issues that affect both the forensic and medical ethics in the sense that it is a physical and psychological harm to the person, leaving traces in the body and in the future history of women. The absence of consent, achieving violent physical body, the objectification of the person and damage to bodily integrity are pivotal ethical issues of rape. Currently, victims, complainants, receive psychological and legal support. However, the problem of the body is not supported. Midwives that women face during pregnancy, especially emotionally charged times, are often faced with situations that are reactivated old rape as post-traumatic stress disorder at the time recognized as being particularly vulnerable. knowledge of the female body that has the wise woman, the trust and consent that the woman gives the midwife in access to his privacy, make an ally of choice to help the patient to recover in his integrity of woman in order to become a mother. Specific listening skills and body relaxation techniques as well as their experience and clinical practice sexology are additional assets in this support. The fact that midwives can now see patients for their annual gynecological care and also meet during complete perineal rehabilitation accompanying possibilities of these patients. After an inventory of the number of rapes in France and support currently proposed, we focus on the ethical issues raised by rape and in the last part we will discuss more specifically the role of midwife in pragmatic help she can bring these women.