Women’s Reproductive Rights

A First for Me ~ (Part 1 of 4) ~ Praise and reprint of an essay by AMA’s President Jack Resneck, and yep, it’s that good!

by faithgibson May 23, 2023

Part 1 (of 4) ~ Intro & background information Direct link to the public letter by the president of the AMA. I, faith gibson, am no fan of the American Medical Association (AMA). But I do “approve this message” by the president of the AMA, Dr. Jack Resneck, MD and encourage others to read and distribute […]

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State chapter of the AMA ends a successful hospital-based nurse-midwifery program providing normal birth services to low-income women that greatly reduced perinatal mortality ~ 1963

by faithgibson May 21, 2023

In 1963, the California state lobbyists for the AMA and the those for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists {ACOG) stopped a hospital-based nurse-midwifery program that provided physiological management of normal childbirth to very low-income population of women. Shutting down an effective nurse-midwifery program resulted in a rise in neonatal mortality from 10.3 to an […]

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*Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue? originally written & published in 2003

by faithgibson April 1, 2023

Originally written and post in 2003 ~ Extremely informative, includes history of abortion laws in the US , sadly confirms that the more things change, the more they stay the same! Also recommend this contemporary article published 2022 in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) by Herminia Palacio, MD MPH Over the Precipice Into a […]

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The Disturbing story of obstetrics in America from 1910 to 1980 ~ Older version – Gender-writ Large

by faithgibson January 13, 2023

12,107 word ~ 2nd Draft version w/ better wording of several topics to be transferred to appropriate chapter  — don’t delete until finished moving text The gender gap writ large, with women as mothers and midwives the historic losers. It’s also at the root of why the medical profession was so prejudiced against, and demeaning […]

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NPR interview of Mormon mother of 6 who identifies male ejaculation of origin of abortion issues

by faithgibson October 21, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1130113865/book-by-mom-of-six-puts-onus-on-men-to-stop-unwanted-pregnancies Book by mom of six puts onus on men to stop unwanted pregnancies October 20, 20228:04 AM ET SARAH MCCAMMON During Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018, writer Gabrielle Blair was watching — and going “absolutely bonkers, just hearing man after man grandstanding about abortion.” “It’s so clear to me they […]

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