Category Archives: surgical discourse
Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Via the ever marvellous Feminist Law Professors. As personhood of the foetus is foisted on Australian women via the backdoor of homebirth legislation, we should be paying attention to this.
Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Courtney G. Joslin
University of California, Davis – School of Law
The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, University of Chicago Press, 2009
UC Davis Legal [...]
More Henci Goer writing
I’m in danger of becoming a groupie. I was already wildly grateful for her work but after a morning of reading about pole dancing being a sport, how Australia lacks women in parliament, and how women aren’t too fussed by the unspeakable misogyny of Tony Abbott (and neither are men), it was such a relief [...]
The AMA trots out another media bonanza piece of crap
Not content with wheeling out the already discredited Pang and Bastian “studies”, the AMA has now wheeled out a synopsis for a study of homebirth that rather misses the points of the information they actually found in the study.
Check out Lisa Barrett’s blog and Hoyden About Town for a full breakdown. I also look forward [...]
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