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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MAYDAY Series: 4-D ~ Routine use of EFM as failed public health strategy — Trying to build a better mousetrap instead of building a better foundation

by faithgibson May 14, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the very last post in this series. However it is followed by peer-reviewed studies (full text or substantial excerpts) cited in the Mayday series and essays based on the scientific literature by practicing obstetricians. Please read them as well. The disappointing choice by the obstetrical community to focus on obstetrical technology […]

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Mayday Series: 4-C ~ Development of automated EFM replaces Auscultation 

by faithgibson May 11, 2019

This continues the history of fetal monitoring as a Verb: Development of automated electronic fetal monitors replaces Auscultation With the clarity of hindsight, we now know that just recording the one-minute fetal baseline rate was not sufficient to identify subtle indicators of fetal distress. In the decades before and after the ideas expressed in Dr. DeLee’s 1924 […]

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Mayday! 4-B ~ EFM:The Glue that keeps Hospital Corporations & Obstetrical profession joined at the hip despite the technology’s lack of efficacy & assoc. increase in C-sections

by faithgibson May 9, 2019

Routine EFM, Hospitals economics & the Nancy Reagan “Just Say No” policy of just saying no changing a Standard of Care that is harmful to healthy women with low-risk pregnancies The professional journal publications quoted in this series of posts and many other peer-reviewed articles clearly convey the obvious: The routine use of continuous EFM […]

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Mayday! Part 4A ~ Am obstetrics in the 21st century: conundrums, ethical dilemmas, irrational dichotomies & skyrocketing C-section rates

by faithgibson May 7, 2019

Tiny URL ~  https://tinyurl.com/y48tcu6g But first, a brief recap of part 3: As described in great detail in Chapter 3, in the centuries before modern obstetrics became available, childbirth in America was a grim and depressing story. For women in general, but particularly for the very young, the working class poor, minorities and immigrant women, […]

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