Women’s Reproductive Rights

Reposted from TIME ~ We Don’t Have to Imagine the Consequences of Abortion Bans – Just Look to the Past (TIME ~ May 16th)

by faithgibson May 20, 2019

Easy-to-share link for this post: https://tinyurl.com/y59886kh Link to original TIME article  BY LESLIE J. REAGAN  MAY 16, 2019 On Wednesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the nation’s most extreme abortion bill. If it goes into effect, it would ban abortion almost entirely in the state — in every stage of ­pregnancy — and make it a felony […]

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Ruthless Reality: How and why abortions were make Illegal or unattainable in 1971 as a political strategy for President Nixon to win re-election

by faithgibson March 16, 2019

An easy shortcut to share ~ http://tinyurl.com/y6jpguf2 Pregnancy – planned or unplanned – is a gender issue that originates with the male of the species. The way to eliminate non-medical abortions is to stop the problem at its source — the end of the penis of the man who is about to father a baby. […]

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The False Association btw Routine Use of Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring (c-EFM) to prevent Cerebral Palsy & the misuse of c-EFM by hospitals and obstetricians to protect themselves from lawsuits ~ Part 1 (of 3)

by faithgibson March 3, 2019

Part 1 (of 3) Easy shortcut to share –> http://tinyurl.com/y3ty2392                               word count 5,236 01 10-01-2019@2;00 pm Revealing the false association between routinely using continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) as a strategy to prevent Cerebral Palsy and other neurological damage in newborns, […]

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The story I hate to tell, and no one should have to hear: The Dark History of Obstetrics ~ overview (Part1-A)

by faithgibson March 4, 2016

Overview (Part 1 of 7) Easy-to-share link ~ https://tinyurl.com/y5q26wbn Note: this link leads to the first post only.  To access sequential parts of the story, just follow the link at the bottom of each post. Faith Gibson, LM Former L&D nurse, MBC’s Midwifery Advisory Council 2007-2013  Part 1 Overview is broken into two consecutive posts […]

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Comments ~ New Yorker Article “THE SCORE: Industrialization of Childbirth” ~ introducing myself

by faithgibson October 24, 2006

2006 About me: I am a mother of three, grandmother of two, former ER and L&D nurse, birth educator, web wife and presently a professional midwife with a small private practice on the San Francisco peninsula. I am also a naturally opinionated person. In particular, I have a lot of opinions about normal birth and […]

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