The American Medical Association (AMA) has decided that the woman folk are getting too uppity and we must be put in our place. Place you may ask? The hospital. At the behest of the the American Collage of Gynecologists and Obstetrics (ACOG) the AMA has made a formal resolution against home birth and are now going to work at legislating away a woman's right to birth at home. Now you need to understand the AMA and the ACOG are representing the best interests of it's members, not you! Birth is where the big bucks are in the hospital industry. If you birth at home, they lose money. Thanks to a heightened awareness about home birth by films such as the Business of Being Born and celebrity homebirthers like Cindy Crawford, Ani Defranco, Charlotte Church, John McGinley and Dave Matthews, to name a few. Also while the number of woman choosing homebirth in America is about 1% on average, it is increasing. It's increasing because studies are showing that it is just as safe, if not safer to birth at home. And because the medical establishment wants birthing woman to be nice, quiet and compliant. This is a turf war, but the turf is your body. You may not want to birth at home, but are you OK with them taking that right away from you and your daughters? Do you really think your body should belong to the AMA?Here is a very thorough blog post on this important matter http://rixarixa.blogspot.com/Think about this if the AMA and ACOG have their way, as soon as you decide to keep a pregnancy your bodily rights end. Women it is time to stand up and fight for your rights and your body.
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