From: NaturalChildbirth.org
http://www.ican-online.org/pregnancy/legal-rights-pregnant-woman
Women do not lose their constitutional or common law rights by
becoming pregnant. Today, people who understand their rights as
patients are more likely to successfully negotiate the health care
system, use health insurance and managed care plans, and work with
physicians and other health care professionals. Most important, a
just health care system requires respect [...]
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Legal Rights of the Pregnant Woman
http://www.ican-online.org/pregnancy/legal-rights-pregnant-woman
Women do not lose their constitutional or common law rights by
becoming pregnant. Today, people who understand their rights as
patients are more likely to successfully negotiate the health care
system, use health insurance and managed care plans, and work with
physicians and other health care professionals. Most important, a
just health care system requires respect [...]
Legal Rights of the Pregnant Woman
http://www.ican-online.org/pregnancy/legal-rights-pregnant-woman
Women do not lose their constitutional or common law rights by
becoming pregnant. Today, people who understand their rights as
patients are more likely to successfully negotiate the health care
system, use health insurance and managed care plans, and work with
physicians and other health care professionals. Most important, a
just health care system requires respect [...]
New Year's Resolutions for Pregnant Women
(These also work if you're trying to get pregnant too!) Okay, it's
the day we all get to sit around and make New Year's resolutions,
intentions or consider changing our ways in some manner. In some
years, I've been tempted to say that pregnant women are immune from
the discussions of diets and exercise that tend to swirl around the
first day of the new year, but I'm changing my tune. There are
plenty of things that pregnant women have to look forward to in the
new year and plenty that they have control over. So here are some
sample New Year's Intentions for pregnancy: Record your pregnancy.
At the beginning of your pregnancy, nine months feels like it will
last forever. You believe that you have all the time in the world
to take pictures of your changing body and growing belly or
recor...
The International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative: A Human Rights Approach to Optimal Maternity Care
Article by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Rae Davies and
Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon: "...we deeply believe that women who
do get pregnant should have what we consider to be the basic human
right of humane and evidence-based maternity care. It's not about
the right to give birt--there is no such right--it's about the
right to receive appropriate care when you do." This is an article
excerpt from Midwifery Today magazine, Autumn 2010.
Blogs Comment On Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Sex Education Funding, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog
entries. ~ "A New Fight Over Abortion Access," Joyce Tang, Daily
Beast's "Blogs & Stories": Antiabortion-rights crisis pregnancy
centers "have long operated under the guise of reproductive health
care" and "been largely unregulated, even though they are eligible
for federal abstinence-only funding," Tang writes...