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Category Archives: Birth Centers
Activist in trainging: Zakiyah W. (post #2)
Take a look at the rooms…. don’t ask for the stats!! As part of our biopsychology of birth class, we were put into groups and sent out to different hospitals to collect information. Some of the information we received included … Continue reading
CDC Releases Home Birth Data
Today the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released some much anticipated data regarding home birth from 1990 to 2006. Inside the released data, it showed an increasing trend in out of hospital births. Home births rose about 5% from … Continue reading
Ricki Lake debates Dr. Lisa on the The Doctors
Part One Part Two What do you think about what was said in this debate?
Choices in Childbirth
There are lots of things that influence women’s decisions on where to give birth. A lot of it has to do with what happens during labor but recently I’ve been talking to a lot of women who made their choice … Continue reading
How American is our Medical Association?
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AMA Plans to Remove Mother’s Choice
We’ve seen Mother’s choices restricted in the past:
Little or no access to midwifery care
Food restricted during labor
Pushing in the lithotomy position
No Option for Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
- Just to name a few.
Now, the AMA is adding another item to their list – Outlawing Homebirth!
At their recent annual meeting, the AMA stated that:
“That our American Medical Association only advocate in legislative and regulatory arenas for the licensing of midwives who are certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.” In plain terms, this means that the AMA will only support hospital midwives, or CNMs.
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Sign the Petition
The recent resolution by the American Medical Association opposing Home Birth is all over the message boards today. Resolutions were introduced by the AMA to support ACOG’s position against home birth and to “develop model legislation in support of the concept that the safest setting for labor, delivery, and the immediate post-partum period is in the hospital, or a birthing center within a hospital complex, that meets standards jointly outlined by the AAP and ACOG, or in a freestanding birthing center that meets the standards of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, The Joint Commission, or the American Association of Birth Centers.”
Sign the Petition Today! Please help send a message to the AMA and ACOG, and to our state and federal legislators, to tell them that we object to these resolutions and we view legislation that would restrict a woman’s right to choose a home birth as a being contrary to scientific evidence and a violation of women’s basic human rights.
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