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- I loved this: Riches make themselves wings: they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. I also followed the big implosion over at We Are the Real Deal, and thought Rachel's blow-by-blow critique of it was spot-on, per usual: How
(posted to Weekly Feminist Reader) - But there's a big difference between critiquing the religious practices that are dominant and mainstream in your culture, and critiquing those that belong to a different culture.
(posted to Weekly Feminist Reader) - Loved these: Stuff What Boys Can Do and What makes a "birth defect" a defect? on Cester Semenya and the way we conceptualize intersex.
(posted to Weekly Feminist Reader) - I don't think the only two choices are to be critical of Islam or embrace it. But I do think that whenever you're speaking about an artifact of a culture to which you don't belong, it's important to be very
(posted to Weekly Feminist Reader) - There's also a heightened risk of having to have an emergency hysterectomy with each subsequent c-section, but the hospital only seems to focus on the risks of vaginal birth for some reason, and generally doesn't even inform women about the
(posted to Arizona Mom Threatened with Court Order for Refusing Unnecessary Surgery)
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- this is a clear example of how, in our current health "care" system, the burden falls onto the patient for everything. the one hospital that she could safely get to in the event that her birth presented a complication, isn't (posted to Arizona Mom Threatened with Court Order for Refusing Unnecessary Surgery)
- Exactly. Upon reading this article, I was confused as to what the benefit for ANY laboring woman would be to deliver there over delivering at home ... it sure sounds like they are completely unprepared for any emergency for anyone (posted to Arizona Mom Threatened with Court Order for Refusing Unnecessary Surgery)
- It does matter how far the facility is. My labor with my first child didn't last long enough for me to travel the distance from Page to Phoenix. I would have given birth in the car. Thankfully, I didn't have (posted to Arizona Mom Threatened with Court Order for Refusing Unnecessary Surgery)
- They can't hire more staff. This is a 25 bed hospital in a tiny town in rural Arizona. I oppose VBAC bans and threatening a court order was so over the top that it's ridiculous--but this is a hospital that (posted to Arizona Mom Threatened with Court Order for Refusing Unnecessary Surgery)
- I think that your readers, good feminists from any wave, would be more comfortable with this post if you titled it something along the lines of "The misuse of the term PMS has further marginalized women" which is, of course, (posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
