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	<title>Janet Fraser &#187; surgical discourse</title>
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	<description>Where birth and feminism intersect.</description>
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		<title>Press cuttings</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/08/26/press-cuttings/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/08/26/press-cuttings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[maternal mortality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Updated list-in-progress here. Shamed but not named: bad medics use law to hide their identities Paying for negligence: Birth bungles cost $115m in NSW alone Hypervirulent strain of Clostridium difficile in Epworth Hospital in Richmond Melbourne Scared nurses&#8217; secret evidence of intimidation No room at the hospital for sick toddler Hospital blunder turns into family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways we silence women</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/08/18/ways-we-silence-women/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/08/18/ways-we-silence-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[surgical discourse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a beautiful and important post by Heather Armstrong, presented on The Unncessarean. I know many women will relate to it. Unfortunately. Read the rest at the link. Thank you, Heather. Every time this is articulated, another woman comes in from the cold and realises her feelings are valid and important, that she&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throwing out the lies with the birth water &#8211; Sydney screening!</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/08/10/throwing-out-the-lies-with-the-birth-water-sydney-screening/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/08/10/throwing-out-the-lies-with-the-birth-water-sydney-screening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[consumers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homebirth campaign]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throwing out the lies with the birth water is a documentary about a woman&#8217;s right to give birth at home. It outlines the key issues for birth choices in the Blue Mountains, NSW. It follows one woman&#8217;s journey before, during and after her homebirth. It questions the definitions of risk in birth and the notions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I don&#8217;t do due dates &#8211; one woman&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/06/09/why-i-dont-do-due-dates-one-womans-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/06/09/why-i-dont-do-due-dates-one-womans-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[first time homebirther]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A first time birthing woman I know has been managing the fear others are feeling around her upcoming birth by choosing to present some facts for those who haven&#8217;t yet found out that obstetrics is mostly antiquated nonsense. I found her thoughts and perspective interesting given my own perspective as a writer and birth attendant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real birth wars</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/05/16/the-real-birth-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/05/16/the-real-birth-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 03:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bullshit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homebirth science not obstetric superstition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obstetric monopoly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personhood of the foetus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesky pesce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reproductive freedom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;quality and safety framework&#8221; has been released. My response looks like this: Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com The real birth wars]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/03/12/261/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/03/12/261/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[consumers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; School of Law The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, University of Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Henci Goer writing</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/03/07/more-henci-goer-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/03/07/more-henci-goer-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[homebirth after previous caesarean]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;t too fussed by the unspeakable misogyny of Tony Abbott (and neither are men), it was such a relief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The AMA trots out another media bonanza piece of crap</title>
		<link>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/01/16/the-ama-trots-out-another-media-bonanza-piece-of-crap/</link>
		<comments>http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/2010/01/16/the-ama-trots-out-another-media-bonanza-piece-of-crap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bullshit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homebirth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgical discourse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lies we tell to women]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/?p=213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not content with wheeling out the already discredited Pang and Bastian &#8220;studies&#8221;, 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&#8217;s blog and Hoyden About Town for a full breakdown. I also look [...]]]></description>
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