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Sancionada! Lei que regulamenta a doula como profissional da saúde
25 statements · 1 politicians · April 9, 2026 · 3 min
Statements by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. 25 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Professional Regulation, Public Health and Hospital Infrastructure, Education, Women's Rights.
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About: regulate the profession of doulas
We have now signed the doula law.
About: regulate the profession of midwives
Soon the Congress will approve the midwife law.
So we will have something sui generis in Brazil.
About: ensure quality public healthcare services
I think it must be the only country in the world where a woman will have full support.
We must make the pride you are feeling today at the signing of this law count.
Congratulations to Brazilian women for yet another achievement.
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About: regulate the profession of doulas
On the day of the signing... Fully, without vetoes, by the President of the Republic, of the bill that regulates the practice and the profession of doulas in our country, Mr. President.
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This has been a decades-long struggle for these women.
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There are studies that show.
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About: integrate doula support into prenatal and childbirth care
When a doula accompanied prenatal care, when a doula accompanied the birth, violence was lower, the cesarean rate was lower, and suffering was less.
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About: integrate doula support into prenatal and childbirth care
And the gratitude of women at such an important moment of bringing life into the world was greater.
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About: guarantee doula support during childbirth
Only I know, sometimes — and it wasn't once... it wasn't twice or three times — instances of obstetric violence, and because we didn't have someone to accompany us who could, among other things, work on our psychological well-being.
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About: guarantee doula support during childbirth
And the doula gives you that support before and during [the birth].
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About: promote humanized childbirth
It's what we mean when we talk about the need for humanized childbirth.
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About: integrate doulas into the public health system (SUS)
I am a doula in the SUS; I won't leave the SUS; I serve 90%.
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In six years at the SUS, every time I leave, I leave fulfilled, as if I could hug my mother when she gave birth to her four children.
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So, it's a joy for me to be here.
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About: regulate the profession of doulas
It's a joy to be carrying my daughter and to be able to regulate this profession with my daughter in my belly.
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It's moving.
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About: guarantee access to doulas during childbirth for all women
And I hope to have my doula, because every woman deserves one.
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Today, without any doubt, it's a historic day.
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About: promote humanization of childbirth and obstetric care
because its signing is precisely the materialization of your great defense of Brazil, which is the defense of humanization, the defense of the protection of Brazilian women, which is the defense of life.
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About: integrate doulas into basic health units (UBS)
It now becomes a legitimate profession; you have full legitimacy to go throughout Brazil to persuade people that soon every basic health unit will have a doula, and to persuade universities and technical programs to advance significantly in training.
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About: include doula training in universities and technical courses
And by training doulas, we will, without a doubt, shape a new generation that knows what life is.
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About: lead a national effort to combat violence against women
who knows how life must be preserved and loved, that life is sacred and that there must be no violence against either women or pregnant women, and that this pregnancy must always be the result of love, of a decision by women.
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