L.A.mama
01-24-2008, 07:30 AM
Please see the site of Canadian midwife GloriaLemay.com (http://glorialemay.com/) before reading the following.
The following letter is from a midwifery group's discussion about Ron Paul. It was the post that got me to looking into him. It's been a Ron Paul marathon in our home ever since -in Jesus' name of course!
As a home birthing mother, the part that won me over was this: "I then asked him, "...so you would be in favor of the licensure of direct entry midwives?". He laughed and said that He isn't even in favor of licensure for physicians!"
Hi Everyone,
Pardon me if I'm off base, but I thought there was recently a
discussion about presidential candidates and c-section rates, etc.
I came across some info about Ron Paul, who is running for president
that I thought sounded very promising. I, personally, am so thrilled
about him!
He's a retired OB/GYN and states here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7100101451.html
that his c-section rate was around 15%.
On another list I'm on, someone from the North Carolina Friends of
Midwives yahoo group sent out this message:
*************************************************
Ron Paul for Freedom in Birth
Fri Nov 2, 2007 6:55 am (PST)
Dear All,
Yesterday my family and I drove the 3 hours to Greenville, SC. To be
present for the opening of Ron Paul's new campaign office there. We
arrived just in time to hear his moving speech to a whopping crowd of
about 500 supporters. For those of you who aren't familiar with Ron
Paul, he is a freedom-fighter, a constitutionalist, a ten-term US
Congressman and an OB-GYN by profession.
I had the opportunity to ask him his opinion of homebirth at the end
of his speech. I doubted he would give much time to my question
considering ACOG's stance and all the cameras present. But I am still
giddy from his response, he couldn't have given a better answer.
He started out by saying that the vast majority of births are very
safe by nature and it is rare for a life-threatening complication to
occur, so most normal births would be perfectly safe at home. He
pointed out that because of the possibility of complications, it is
important to have a trained, skilled attendant.
I then asked him, "...so you would be in favor of the licensure of
direct entry midwives?". He laughed and said that He isn't even in
favor of licensure for physicians! He talked about licensure being a
result of the previous prohibition of a profession and a form of
government control that ultimately denegrates the quality of care and
interferes with the patient/provider relationship where decisions
should be made.
I described to him the situation in Oregon. He said that, yes, that
would be the ideal situation, where families have true freedom of
choice to choose the type of care they want and midwives aren't being
prohibited from practicing or forced to accept government control over
the way they practice through licensure. He added that licensure is of
course an improvement over prohibition (which is what we have now)
because it would allow for doctor back-up and open channels of
communication that would make homebirth safer for mothers and babies.
WHAT A GREAT ANSWER! I am hoping that my husband caught the whole
thing on tape.
A young friend of ours had the opportunity to ask him about the
decline in education in the USA over the past 40 years. That exchange
has already been posted on youtube as a part of the speech he gave
later that day in Spartanburg. And again he was amazingly honest about
his opinion and insightful. I am a complete convert now, Ron(sic) Paul
for President! ;-)
I just thought you would all be interested in that! It really made my
week.
__________________________________________________ _____
. See the YouTube childbearing channel to gain a better understanding of why home birth is not only the best, but a very freedom loving, American way for a family to birth: http://youtube.com/profile?user=childbearing/
.
The following letter is from a midwifery group's discussion about Ron Paul. It was the post that got me to looking into him. It's been a Ron Paul marathon in our home ever since -in Jesus' name of course!
As a home birthing mother, the part that won me over was this: "I then asked him, "...so you would be in favor of the licensure of direct entry midwives?". He laughed and said that He isn't even in favor of licensure for physicians!"
Hi Everyone,
Pardon me if I'm off base, but I thought there was recently a
discussion about presidential candidates and c-section rates, etc.
I came across some info about Ron Paul, who is running for president
that I thought sounded very promising. I, personally, am so thrilled
about him!
He's a retired OB/GYN and states here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7100101451.html
that his c-section rate was around 15%.
On another list I'm on, someone from the North Carolina Friends of
Midwives yahoo group sent out this message:
*************************************************
Ron Paul for Freedom in Birth
Fri Nov 2, 2007 6:55 am (PST)
Dear All,
Yesterday my family and I drove the 3 hours to Greenville, SC. To be
present for the opening of Ron Paul's new campaign office there. We
arrived just in time to hear his moving speech to a whopping crowd of
about 500 supporters. For those of you who aren't familiar with Ron
Paul, he is a freedom-fighter, a constitutionalist, a ten-term US
Congressman and an OB-GYN by profession.
I had the opportunity to ask him his opinion of homebirth at the end
of his speech. I doubted he would give much time to my question
considering ACOG's stance and all the cameras present. But I am still
giddy from his response, he couldn't have given a better answer.
He started out by saying that the vast majority of births are very
safe by nature and it is rare for a life-threatening complication to
occur, so most normal births would be perfectly safe at home. He
pointed out that because of the possibility of complications, it is
important to have a trained, skilled attendant.
I then asked him, "...so you would be in favor of the licensure of
direct entry midwives?". He laughed and said that He isn't even in
favor of licensure for physicians! He talked about licensure being a
result of the previous prohibition of a profession and a form of
government control that ultimately denegrates the quality of care and
interferes with the patient/provider relationship where decisions
should be made.
I described to him the situation in Oregon. He said that, yes, that
would be the ideal situation, where families have true freedom of
choice to choose the type of care they want and midwives aren't being
prohibited from practicing or forced to accept government control over
the way they practice through licensure. He added that licensure is of
course an improvement over prohibition (which is what we have now)
because it would allow for doctor back-up and open channels of
communication that would make homebirth safer for mothers and babies.
WHAT A GREAT ANSWER! I am hoping that my husband caught the whole
thing on tape.
A young friend of ours had the opportunity to ask him about the
decline in education in the USA over the past 40 years. That exchange
has already been posted on youtube as a part of the speech he gave
later that day in Spartanburg. And again he was amazingly honest about
his opinion and insightful. I am a complete convert now, Ron(sic) Paul
for President! ;-)
I just thought you would all be interested in that! It really made my
week.
__________________________________________________ _____
. See the YouTube childbearing channel to gain a better understanding of why home birth is not only the best, but a very freedom loving, American way for a family to birth: http://youtube.com/profile?user=childbearing/
.