ÉthiquePeut-on concilier autonomie maternelle et responsabilité médicale dans les décisions de voies d’accouchement des fœtus en siège ? Rôle de l’informationDecision making on breech delivery: Information as a way to reconcile maternal autonomy and medical responsibility

As far as breech vaginal delivery remains an acceptable option, each case has to be evaluated in order to determine whether in that particular situation it is medically relevant. When vaginal delivery is to be envisaged, maternal consent is needed. This implies seeking medical information that allows women to express their autonomy and to be part of the decision regarding their delivery. This article concerns a physicians reflection on medical information and on connections between the obstetrician's responsibility, that of the future mother, and autonomy. Understanding information as necessarily arising from an exchange between the care giver and the future mother is the condition that allows the coexistence of maternal autonomy and medical responsibility.