Birth Options Essential
By danotoyou2
January 31, 2008
Finally, someone is writing about the public perception of a “woman’s right to choose,” so long as that right is not birthing location, attendant or method. As someone who had to travel to have a normal, vaginal birth, I’ve done my share of ranting and raving about the lack of access for birth. Sure, I could get an abortion locally; but to birth my child in a loving environment, I For those of us who work in abortion care or are advocates for reproductive freedom for all, we know that sex and pregnancy are more than just biological events.
What many of us have missed in our critique of these shortcomings is that the same oppressive cultural mechanisms that restrict women’s abilities to make fully informed decisions about when to have children also affect their decisions regarding where, how, and with whom to birth those children.
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I wish that more women were aware of the alternatives available to them, but that won’t happen until the media begin to recognize birth as a women’s rights issue, and not just something that happens after a woman decides to have a child (and not an abortion).
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