By: Bohi

Bohi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:57:26 +0000

interesting, i think she’s never had a baby or been in a position to be “told” and “handled” when it comes to her life and health. i also agree that for someone who says the film makers didn’t do their research, she sure didn’t do hers! she’s pretty caught up in the fact that it’s white women who can afford homebirths who are having them, but a large majority of homebirth in this country takes place in rural areas where the omish live and in places like alabama where there is a strong history of “granny” midwives attending women who can’t afford the hospital and where the hospital is 200 miles away 1/2 way on a dirt road, and when they get there, they turn them away for having “outstanding debts” and these women have been being decommissioned and not allowed to practice leaving these pregnant women with no where to go. i am going to write a response too i think, i have a lot to say and i’m not sure if i can put that kind of time into it. but maybe. i’m not too concerned with the weakness of the film, i didn’t think there were that many, even the parts i was thinking oh that’s a little rough on the hospital, my friends who are nurses say, “no, it was right on, it’s actually like that”. she doesn’t even bother to mention things like the history of obstetrics that was shown, i thought that was really well done, i mean can you put thalidomide in a good light? i think most women in this county have no clue the guinea pigs we have been for the last 100 years. anyway i’d want to mention that. i’ll see what i can come up with. this dana woman is the kind of woman who is the worst kind, the kind that can’t see where we need a sisterhood of support!

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By: Bohi