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A Woman's Nation: Reclaim Your Right To Birth Right

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Maternal Death, Women's Health, A Woman's Nation, Health, Ina May Gaskin, Cesarean Section, Christiane Norrthrup, C-Section, Healthcare, Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

I have spent the last 30 years educating women about the wisdom of their bodies, including their innate ability to birth normally. Yet our so-called healthcare system...sees the female body and its processes (like labor) as an accident waiting to happen.

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American Life League: Anti-Abortion "Personhood" Measures Really Will Hurt All Pregnant Women

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Life League, Abortion, Cesarean Section, Personhood, Egg Is Person, Pregnancy, Pro-Life, C-Section, Politics News
Lynn M. Paltrow

What the American Life League provides is a defense of court orders forcing pregnant women to have cesarean surgery against their will.

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Dick Morris Doesn't Understand Birth or Health Care

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Dick Morris, Cesarean Section, Politics News
Louise Marie Roth

Morris implies that cutting back on cesareans and encouraging natural childbirth would do a disservice to the health of mothers and babies -- an implication that is patently false.

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Concerned About Coerced Abortions? Try Saying No to Cesarean Surgery

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Birth, Abortion, Women, Coercion, Pregnant, Cesarean Section, Woman, Pregnancy, Legislation, Reproductive, Cesarean-Section, Health, Cesarean, Hospitals, Missouri, Episiotomy, Medical Costs, Medicine, Vbac, Politics News
Lynn M. Paltrow

The rise in cesarean surgery rates has not been accompanied by overall improvements in maternal or child health and creates risks to pregnant women and babies that do not exist with vaginal births.

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Extreme Birth, Indeed

Jennifer Block | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Ricki Lake, Birth Center, New York Magazine, Midwives, Natural Childbirth, Cesarean Section, Erykah Badu, Obstetrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Home Birth, New York City, Evidence-Based Medicine, C-Section Rate, Living News
Jennifer Block

Routine maternity ward monitoring, inducing, and anesthetizing have added up to millions of unnecessary cesarean sections: a hospital childbirth system gone insane.

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