Keep Home Birth Legal

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   Name: Nichole Feinauer on Jun 20, 2008

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   Name: Heather Deatrick on Jun 20, 2008

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3. 153
   Name: Dan Kelly on Jun 20, 2008

   Comments: Birthing is NOT a medical procedure. I firmly believe that the woman has the right to choose where she has her baby, and taking away that choice is not going to make births any safer.

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4. 154
   Name: Theresa Schlosser on Jun 20, 2008

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5. 155
   Name: Amy Chavez on Jun 20, 2008

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6. 156
   Name: Jenneth K. James on Jun 20, 2008

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7. 157
   Name: Jade Connelly- Duggan on Jun 20, 2008

   Comments: three healthy babies strong! please empower our right to be a free and wise country. overmedicalization is clearly not working to keep us healthy. empower choice.

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8. 158
   Name: Emily Sewall on Jun 20, 2008

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9. 159
   Name: Elke Saunders on Jun 20, 2008

   Comments: Birth choices and maternity services should be made available according to the desires and for the well being of the informed consumer. They should not be dictated by the fear of lawsuits, profitability or convenience of the health care providers or the facility. Homebirth is safe, and should be a viable option in the U.S. just as it is in other developed countries.

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10. 160
    Name: Jill Jacobs on Jun 20, 2008

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11. 161
    Name: Michelle Telfer, CNM on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: I work in hospital, but strongly believe based on evidence based research that homebirth should and must remain a safe option for the low-risk women who choose it.

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12. 162
    Name: Emily Bruno on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: This is a big can of worms you're opening!

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13. 163
    Name: Jennifer Blek on Jun 20, 2008

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14. 164
    Name: Mrs. Maryann Elizabeth Combs on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: My husband and I have hired a Midwife to attend our last two births at home. After delivering our first three children in the hospital we now know that the long painful frightening experience we had in the hospital was caused by the routine interventions they insisted on. They ultimately made a surgical delivery necessary and put our children and I at heightened risk. We will not go back to the hospital for the birth of a child again unless intervention is needed. My midwife is trained to determine this necessity. We pay more for my choice of home birth as we have to pay out of pocket. We are willing to pay more as well as travel out of state if need be. I will not be forced by legislation back into the hospital. We have educated ourselves of the evidence and I do not find ACOG's position to be on the side of safety for women and babies. They are out to protect the financial potential of the Obstetricians and perpetuate business as usual in spite of the scientific evidence that women and babies are being harmed by their policy standards.

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15. 165
    Name: Christianne Corbett on Jun 20, 2008

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16. 166
    Name: Rhea K. Evans on Jun 20, 2008

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17. 167
    Name: Ann Gramuglia on Jun 20, 2008

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18. 168
    Name: Sarah Wallbaum on Jun 20, 2008

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19. 169
    Name: Beth Brownstein on Jun 20, 2008

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20. 170
    Name: Lara Brown on Jun 20, 2008

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21. 171
    Name: Arthur Tappendorf on Jun 20, 2008

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22. 172
    Name: Emily Ellerbe on Jun 20, 2008

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23. 173
    Name: Charity Scouten on Jun 20, 2008

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24. 174
    Name: Janice Wolfenberg on Jun 20, 2008

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25. 175
    Name: Kerry Hanley on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: Protect the right to birth at home!

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26. 176
    Name: Jennifer Burrows on Jun 20, 2008

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27. 177
    Name: Tara Smith on Jun 20, 2008

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28. 178
    Name: Kathleen McCullough on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: It is a human right to decide where to give birth to one's child. Women should not be forced to deliver in a hospital where germs and disease are dangerous to the well-being of their newborns. Birthing is not a disease. Women have been doing this since the beginning of time and before hospitals or doctors were even around. I oppose the decision that this right be taken away!

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29. 179
    Name: Hannah Jackson on Jun 20, 2008

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30. 180
    Name: Christine Sander on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: Homebirth is the choice of the woman and under proper care is indeed a suitable and even preferable environment for childbirth. Corporate profits and scare tactics are not going to discourage educated women from making decisions that are best for their children. Attending midwives are able to transport women to hospitals in case of emergencies and they come fully prepared for most common mishaps.

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31. 181
    Name: Margaret Knapke on Jun 20, 2008

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32. 182
    Name: Susan Gee Heino on Jun 20, 2008

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33. 183
    Name: Elizabeth D. Copeland on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: ACOG needs to review all the available literature on this subject rather than only speaking to their accountants.

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34. 184
    Name: Douglas W. Copeland on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: My wife had a wonderful homebirth with trustworthy midwives. OB's should be available for those who need and want them and other options should be available to low risk mothers.

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35. 185
    Name: Sharon Nottingham RN,BSN,MPH on Jun 20, 2008

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36. 186
    Name: Eileen Denomme on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: I delivered all four of my children at home with a midwife in attendance. They are 26,24, 21, and 19 years of age. My two grandkids were born at home with a midwife in attendance, ages 7years and 19 months old. I will fight for the right for any woman to deliver with whom-ever she chooses, where-ever she chooses. It's a God-given, basic human right to choose.

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37. 187
    Name: Carmelia Szemplinski on Jun 20, 2008

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38. 188
    Name: Kristen Benoit on Jun 20, 2008

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39. 189
    Name: Amanda Larkin on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: Hospitals/Doctors seem very greedy and self-centered when trying to dictate that their facility is the best and only place women should birth. How did we ever manage to become the over populated planet we are today before hospitals existed. In fact most third world countries where women birth at home because they have no choice have higher birth rates than industrialized ones. I am so glad we had our first child at home and any others will be as well! This is a decision that every family should make and not doctors who just want to secure their funds to pay for all the expensive equipment that most women do not need to birth.

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40. 190
    Name: Amanda McMahon on Jun 20, 2008

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41. 191
    Name: Christa Holmes on Jun 20, 2008

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42. 192
    Name: Cris Welsh on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: Women have the right to choose where and how they would like to deliver their children...it isn't really the governments or medical associations or acog's role to dictate what a woman can do with her body.

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43. 193
    Name: Joni Mastro on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: Keep home birth legal!!

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44. 194
    Name: Alyssa Free on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: I feel that every woman should have the right to make an informed choice for herself. I have had two birth center births and the last one was at a hospital and for me I would NEVER do that again. I would rather give birth anywhere else, even a car. And would do it illegally if I had to, please consider the risk you are creating if you get rid of homebirths, it's a more dangerous choice to make it illegal, you won't stop them. There are other ways to keep us safe!!!

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45. 195
    Name: Audrey Harpe on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: I believe women should have the right to choose how they give birth. If midwives are made illegal, homebirth will not disappear. Unassisted birth will become more prevelant. Families should maintain the right to choose a homebirth and the professional help if they desire to support their safety.

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46. 196
    Name: Shanna Russ on Jun 20, 2008

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47. 197
    Name: Anonymous on Jun 20, 2008

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48. 198
    Name: Anjali Brannon on Jun 20, 2008

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49. 199
    Name: Janet Hall on Jun 20, 2008

    Comments: Women want and deserve safe alternative options to hospital birth. Homebirth attended by a qualified homebirth midwife or physician is statistically safer than hospital birth, and taking away this option forces women to make unsafe choices, such as unattended homebirth, or forces homebirth underground, but will not prevent it from happening. Keep it legal, keep it safe.

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    Name: Kirsten Rohl on Jun 20, 2008

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