Abortion Is The Only ‘Choice’ Women Have Rights Too.

Whenever the term Pro-Abort is used on blogs, the Pro-Choice crowd goes nuts.  They are for ‘choice’ not abortion.  They think women have choices when it comes to reproduction.  Well, it turns out that the ‘choice’ really is just for abortion.  What if a Woman chooses to have her baby at home with the help of a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)?  In 10 states and the District of Columbia a woman doesn’t have that particular right to choose. 

Blogger Jennifer Block at the Huffington Post has much to say on this subject:

CPM’s attend laboring women outside of the hospital, most likely in their own homes. They’re not nurses or doctors; they don’t give epidurals or perform cesareans. Rather, they are trained to provide primary care for normal pregnancy and childbirth and transfer to the next level of care (obstetricians) when it’s necessary. 

(T)he largest international study of CPMs to date, published in the British Medical Journal, found that (midwifery) works remarkably well here in the states….: among 5,000 low-risk women who planned home births with CPMs in North America, 95 percent had spontaneous vaginal births, and their babies did just as well as those delivered by obstetricians in the hospital. The mothers, meanwhile, came out far healthier — fewer than four percent had major surgery and hardly any were induced into labor or had episiotomies (a surgical cut to the vaginal opening).

Compare that to the national numbers: 30 percent of U.S. women have C-sections, more than half are induced into labor or sped up with powerful drugs, and one in three who give birth vaginally are cut….

Governor Matt Blunt signed the bill on June 4, and if the measure takes effect, midwives who attend home births in Missouri will no longer be subject to a felony prosecution.

The Missouri State Medical Association, however, would rather it be a felony. The physician group is fighting the legislation in court…

What threatens (a woman’s) safety is criminalization: when midwives and their clients are discouraged from transporting to the hospital because it will result in a criminal investigation, an arrest, or worse; when higher-risk women stay home because they can’t get supportive care at the hospital; and when women stay home and go “unassisted,” without any trained provider at all, because they don’t want to put a midwife at risk.

Senator Chuck Graham, a pro-choice Democrat…has been the chief opponent of licensing midwives.
Senator John Loudon, the one who wrote in the midwifery measure, turns out to be an anti-abortion Republican.

How many people see what I do?  It is only a ‘choice’ when it puts money in the pockets of the professionals.  Pro-Choice says that abortion needs to be legal because if it wasn’t women would be injured, possibly killed, by back ally abortions.  But now, they don’t care about the health of a woman who chooses a back ally midwife to deliver her baby.

Once again, the Pro-Life Republican proves that we do believe in “choice”, as long as it isn’t the choice to murder.  The Pro-Choice Democrat is for “choice” only when they will make money on it.

Go here for more information on Midwifery.

I am reminded of something by Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson) said in the movie “The Witches of Eastwick”.  He said the medical professionals accused midwifes of being witches so they would have more business.  I wonder if that is true.  It sure seems true now.