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ARCHIVE ~ Quebec’s Creepy Post-Birth Vaginal Inspection Policy

by faithgibson October 27, 2015

Archive for August, 2011 QUEBEC’S CREEPY POST-BIRTH VAGINAL INSPECTION POLICY Posted August 28, 2011 Heather Mattingsly “will not have to show her vagina to anyone to prove the 5-month-old infant is hers,” begins the Montreal Gazette’s story about one of the most creepy, abusive, nonsensical policies a new mother could imagine: Quebec’s new requirement that […]

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XXX Quotes ~ #4 Dr. JWW’s book “Twilight Sleep: Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth” (1914)

by faithgibson September 5, 2015

A Call to Arms, Urging every man to “have a share in the beneficent movement” Whatever your position in the community, you can at least call the attention of your friends and neighbors to this vitally important matter. And it may well be expected that the response will be quick and keen; that knowledge of the […]

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XXX Quotes #3 ~ Dr JWW’s book “TS: Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth” (1914)

by faithgibson September 4, 2015

Aside by Dr Williams’ about obstetrical fees p. 81 “The laity should also be taught that a well-conducted hospital is the ideal place for delivery, especially in the case of those with limited incomes. “Moreover, they should learn that the average compensation for obstetric cases is usually quite inadequate; and should realize, … that doctors who are […]

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XXX Four topics – Quoted Dr J. Whitridge Williams’ book “TS: Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth (1914)

by faithgibson September 3, 2015

Physiological normalcy as an impediment to medicalization That word “physiological” has all along stood as a barrier in the way of progress. The truth is that in assuming an upright posture and in developing an enormous brain, the human race has so modified the conditions incident to child-bearing as to put upon the mother a […]

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XXX Quotes ~ by Dr. J. Whitridge Williams from his 1914 book “Twilight Sleep: Simple Discovery in Painless Childbirth

by faithgibson September 2, 2015

This small book was written in 1914 by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, an MD, attorney and science writer, at the request of Dr. J. Whitridge Williams. Dr JW Williams was associate professor of gynecology in at Johns Hopkins University Hospital beginning in 1894, vice-president of the American Gynecological Society in 1903-04, and Chief of Obstetrics […]

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