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Originally Posted by tecoyah
Its interesting Host...uh...I mean Jenny, That though I myself have expressed my interest,and in fact posted That I too have a bit of experience with unassisted homebirth, you have chosen to completely ignore my input in favor of militantly disregarding all opinions counter to your own. You expect members here to take the time to debate this with you, or at a minimum respect and consider your comments and beliefs, yet wont even "take the time to try" discussing the reservations people have toward the obvious issues such a descision entails.
This is literally the definition of trolling....I again ask you to evaluate the way your message is delivered, if you wish to be taken seriously. Otherwise , very soon you will force this thread into the archives of closed oblivion by becoming a target of ridicule....and little more.
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Have you and your wive spent any time thinking about what it would mean to you personally to have some legislation passed that would make it impossible for you to give birth at home unassisted?
That you as Father, could be picked up by the police and thrown in jail for practicing medicine without a license?
That you could be sued for Medical Neglect for your child?
That your beautiful wife could be forced into the hospital to be poked, prodded, drugged, cut, sutured, and made "all better" if you choose to have another child?
I promise you, this is what is being being planned and plotted in smoky back rooms of obstetric societies even as I write.
I will NOT tone down my rhetoric. If we freebirthers do not go on the offensive and use logic and very loud internet SCREAMING, we are going to lose every thing that is precious to us.
We are already up against a wall of public indignation and disbelief.
When I started down this activist path in 1997, I did not set out to win a popularity contest. I didn't organize the conference and write my books saying to myself....This is my ticket to being LIKED!!!
If I wanted to do that I would have written book number 238 on why Epidurals are better than the sex that got me pregnant.
When
Dr. Crippen posted his blog entry, which has been so dutifully reported by a breathless and alarmist press, this was the "testing the waters" moment. An anonymous doctor in the UK throws around words like Manslaughter, and then sits back to see how it resonates with the public. And like he was Moses coming down the mountain with a new set of commandments, the press has quoted him as if he was God himself.
I'm telling you, we are about to be BANNED! And if that happens, it will bring on open season on birthing women in a way that has never before been done in our world. Remember the witch hunts of the dark ages? Five million women burned. Do you envision our law enforcement going around to peoples homes and handcuffing freebirthers and forcibly taking them to the hospital to give birth? I do.
And it is already happening.
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"Laura Pemberton, a soft-spoken, “pro-life” mother of 8, talked about her inability to find a single doctor in all of Florida who would let her have a VBAC. Pressured into her previous c-section and wanting to avoid it this time around, Laura undertook extensive research and decided to have a midwife attended home birth.
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When she became dehydrated during labor, Laura decided to go to the hospital to restore her energy level. But when the doctor found out she was trying to deliver at home, she refused to give her an IV. The only way she would do it was if Laura signed for a c-section. If she didn’t sign? The nurse would begin a court order and would send hospital administrators to speak with her.
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Although it is not illegal for a woman to give birth at home, the only way Laura could escape the hospital was to flee down a back entrance, barefoot, at seven centimeters dilated.
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Once home, Laura felt safe. The baby was positioned properly. But before she knew it, the sheriff and state attorney were entering her bedroom. And when the court order came, they forced her onto a stretcher and into the ambulance. She pleaded. She screamed. She felt total humiliation. But in the end, with only one centimeter to go, with her fingers able to feel her baby’s head, they cut her open anyway.
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After the birth, Laura argued that her civil rights had been violated, but the court disagreed. “I have been raped by the system,” she says. “May God use me to see that nobody should ever have to go through what I did.”
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Laura has since moved to another state and has had four successful VBACs. She had them in hiding, unassisted."
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This is a parental rights issue.
Goggle Laura Pemberton to get different bloggers and activists comments on her case.
I promise you, if your wife was the one being forced to have a section, with police coming into your bedroom, I believe it would turn you into an activist within moments of it happening.
DON'T wait for that to happen, to your family or to anyone else who is passionate about birthing at home.
We should be free to give birth anywhere we want, in peace, with no concern of an overzealous medical society or legal profession just waiting to jump. For years we have been under the radar and under the law. Simply because no law has been written addressing our movement. I believe we need that law for protection, and I am not willing to wait for it to become a law of prosecution.
It is heading that way....can't you see that? Can't you feel it? We are moving towards a medical police state, and in some places are already there.
As I said, it pushes every single liberty loving button in my body to have these medical people throwing out legal terms. I can live with the scorn and rejection from society, have done so for many years.
But you Obstetricians, do
NOT come into my bedroom and force the cult of professionalism on me and my children.
Jenny Hatch