Based on the lens of human rights to understand the theme of sexual and reproductive rights, the present paper focuses on the limits and the scope of the humanistic guidelines before women victims of violence and death within the health system. The main focus of the essay is the issue of maternal mortality, identified as an important indicator of women s living conditions and health, and raised as a serious violation of human rights, and seeks, through an intersectional approach, to give light to the various categories of social inequality present in the analysis from the contributions of authors such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins and Jurema Werneck. With the observation that more than ninety percent of maternal deaths are preventable, as well as with the coexistence of high annual maternal mortality rates in the country, the study addresses this issue as part of a political project based on the imposition of suffering, the precariousness of lives and the stigmatization of bodies, taking into account the political orientations that seem to converge to a scenario of intensification of violation of rights. Articulating concepts by Judith Butler, the essay focuses on maternal mortality from the perspective of death qualifying or not as grievable, seeking ways to reaffirm human rights based on its concrete commitment to women experiencing forms of violence in the national health system.