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I completely agree with this. I also used a midwife and had a home delivery, luckily I did not have to deal with a doctor through my entire pregnancy, but did have a real hard time getting a hospital to set me up an emergency backup plan because I did not use a doctor, and they refused to deal with me. So I had to just say, ok, if anything goes wrong we'll just show up and they'll help me. All the research I did on doctor's and hospitals practices on women in pregnancy and labor was mortifying. Most of the things they do they don't even ask permission or notify you it is being done to you. Good for you WC for standing up to them.The same thing happens with childbirth. I refused a certain test that I had researched and determined was more dangerous than what was being tested for and had a high false positive rate and I was denighed care by a group of doctors and med school trained midwives. AND was essentially blackballed by other care givers who wouldn't take me because the first group had refused me further care. I was fortunate to find a midwife who has worked in the peace core and wasn't tied into the others. She was mystified why they had wanted to do this testing in the first place and found no reason for it. (I later learned that office had spent a bundle on special equipment and subjected every pregnant women to these tests to pay for the equipment) Since that time I've spoken with a number of women who had similar experiences and many who gave in because they didn't want to end up like I did, 7 months pregnant and no care provider. I researched and could have delivered myself.
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Do we not realise that in order to find a soul
It doesn't happen over night
if truth were to be told.
Like everything in life that's hard to achieve
you must believe!
If people believe in abortion as it now is, then close to equal rights would allow the male to "abort" the child by severing all ties for a small fee. Of course, he having a relationship with the child after it was born would be like visiting a dead body. Rights have to be asymmetric in such situations, but they should be as equitable as possible. Rights to terminate should be available on both sides if on any side. The asymmetry is just society forcing a contract onto someone who doesn't want one.Originally Posted by Kallygirlie
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Patrick Henry
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