ACOG/AMA Interest: Money and Power. A tradition for over 100 years.
pamela on Jun 19 2008 at 12:53 am | Filed under: birth activism, birth trust, media
So many eloquent bloggers have written about the recent ACOG /AMA drama that I have decided to link to their thoughts rather than blab on and on in my usual fashion.
The Huffington Post’s feature from Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block and Abby Epstein
Celebrity gossip rag TMZ even had their own take on it
RH (Reproductive Health) Reality Check - Bad Medicine: AMA Seeks to Outlaw Home Births
Feministing [see how bipartisan this issue is, ACOG?] AMA Passes Resolution to Ban Homebirths
From Mothering.com’s Discussion Boards here
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I’m actually quite impressed that the AMA and ACOG are so up in arms about home birth. Women are dissatisfied with what is called maternity (s)care in our country. A woman’s choice is a woman’s choice. Plain and simple.
They’re up in arms and it’s because of our awesome grassroots efforts to show women a safe, gentle and empowering way to birth their babies! We all continue to do amazing work!
Okay, I actually clicked to read the AMA resolution itself and you have word for word the ACOG verbiage about the –oooh!– dangers of home birth, followed by ‘be it resolved that AMA develop model legislation in support of the concept that the safest setting is blahblah.’ Help me out here. What is model legislation. And does ’supporting’ a concept amount to banning conflicting courses of action? I don’t mean to nitpick, I’m just trying to give it a close read with no legal background.
I usually hate anything TMZ has to say, but I liked what they have to say about this. The comments on it quickly devolve into the “My baby and I would have died if I wasn’t in the hospital” unfortunately. Which completely misses the point that the issue is about CHOICE.
way to put a positive spin on it.
I just did a little response at youtube in song… we it was fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pN58kf3Ims
The more we aware women on there choices for a safe birth the more the AMA looses money.
They should be scared! They should be putting all this time and energy into making a hospital birth more natural and educate the staff more on how to support woman in labor rather than offering drugs. A little support goes a long way!
Danielle,
I really don’t mean to sound mean, but do you read your comments before you post?
Your spelling and sentence structure only perpetuates the stereotype that HBers are uneducated!
Yeah, and we know what those **** would have done with Shiny had she been born in the hospital. They were bad enough with my recent embolism with the whole mismanagement thing. WHy do they always manage to worry about the wrong things and ignore the true dangers?