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Posts Tagged ‘ obstetric monopoly ’

Throwing out the lies with the birth water – Sydney screening!

10th August 2010 | 1 Comment

Throwing out the lies with the birth water is a documentary about a woman’s right to give birth at home. It outlines the key issues for birth choices in the Blue Mountains, NSW. It follows one woman’s journey before, during and after her homebirth. It questions the definitions of risk in birth and the notions [...]


Homebirth. It just is.

10th July 2010 | 0 Comments

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com Homebirth. It just is.


The real birth wars

16th May 2010 | 0 Comments

The “quality and safety framework” 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


Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth

12th March 2010 | 0 Comments

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 [...]


More Henci Goer writing

7th March 2010 | 0 Comments

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 [...]


Joyous Birth’s senate submission Part the Fiftieth

11th December 2009 | 1 Comment

Not content with sharing the lurve of the previous enquiries into who really owns women’s bodies  human rights Homebirth in Australia, here is the submission sent today to the next enquiry which I predict will find that women want midwives and to be in charge of their own birth and will result in the AMA’s [...]


The Real Birth Wars *graphic warning*

3rd December 2009 | 0 Comments

Those not from around here might need a little explanation about this post. The dude in the suit peering at the baby he’s imprisoned in a plastic box, away from it’s mother, is Dr Andrew Pesce, current head of the AMA. I heard a rumour he’s a docbot or was that a godbot? Either way, [...]


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