Surprise, surprise, the AMA wants to take away our right to home birth. Great, strip us of our right to birth our children without policies, procedures, and increased risk? Why would we not passively let you do this? Ugh.
The blog world is COVERED in responses to this - including Ricki Lake's response. I won't link them all, but here are a few...
- A Doula Too
- FireFly Mama
- Journey Birth Wrote Two - A response to the AMA and Ricki Lake's response.
- Spirit Led Birth Wrote Two - A response to the AMA and Ricki Lake's response.
- Hathor the Cow Goddess wrote a response and created a comic.
- Woman to Woman
- Even the Huffington Post
- Permission to Mother - a doc's weigh in
Finally, I am adding the little guy at the top of this post to my sidebar - please consider doing the same.
3 comments:
Great blog! Thank you for your suggestions on AllDoulas.
They can never force women to give birth in the hospital unless they start incarcerating women in their 7th or 8th month of pregnancy.
I think there will simply be a dramatic increase in "emergency" births that happened too fast to get to the hospital.
How a woman chooses to birth should be based on her needs and what feels right for her and her family. She should be educated about her options and empowered by her choices. Wherever a woman is most comfortable, supported and heard is the best place for her to birth her baby, whether that be at home, a birthing center or a hospital. Throughout history women have fought long and hard for the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Birthing is a natural ability with which women come naturally equipped. Shouldn’t we be able to choose how and where?
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