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Name: Anonymous on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Amanda Stitely on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Donna Rubens on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Jessica Vargas on Jun 20, 2008Comments: Homebirth has been proven safe for low-risk mothers. Time and time again unnecessary interventions leave women and their babies feeling defeated, even raped, upon discharge from the hospital. We demand our rights as humans, women, and mothers be upheld.Flag
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Name: Debra Miller RN IBCLC on Jun 20, 2008Comments: As a medical professional in OB for 30 years AND a homebirth mother, I believe choice of birth place should not be dictated by law. It is every family's right to take responsibility for this choice with the support and evidenced based information from their chosen healthcare provider.Flag
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Name: Ruth Chowdhury on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Tammie Kelly on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Laurie Conlon on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Loryn Davidson on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Samantha Bushong on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Jessica Weed on Jun 20, 2008Comments: If a woman has the right to an abortion, she should most certainly have the right to birth where ever and with whomever she wishes!Flag
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Name: Megan Donohue on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Katherine Kramp on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sandy Topper on Jun 20, 2008Comments: When I went to the hospital to have my last child I was considered "high risk" because of my age (39) despite the fact that I had delivered 2 previous children with no drugs or intervention, including one at 11+lbs and in a posterior position. It was "hospital policy" to immediately start an IV which I refused. Thanks to an excellent OB who supported MY wishes instead of the hospital's, I was able to deliver MY way with no intervention. Sadly, today, most Drs. are more interested in their own convenience, their bottom line and covering their butts. Given the choice today,I would choose a home birth with a midwife and doula at my side.Flag
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Name: Dawl Liscomb on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Joyce Brenc on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Isa Ruiz-Marino on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Christie Craigie-Carter on Jun 20, 2008Comments: As a mom who made a well-researched decision to have a homebirth, a woman who has heard of atrocious interventions being done routinely in hospitals, and a person who believes in full informed consent in healthcare, I wholeheartedly support this petition that affirms a woman's right to choose the birth setting of her choice.Flag
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Name: Erinn Joslyn on Jun 20, 2008Comments: It is against Womens Rights to have any association tell her she can't home birth! Birthing decisions should be made BY THE MOTHER, NOT by the hospitals or any other business!Flag
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Name: Teresa Vlahovich on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kenneth Weed on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Yasmel Sosa on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Connie on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Jennifer Kim on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Nora R. Moses, DC on Jun 20, 2008Comments: Shame on the AMA! Home birth is a reasonable choice for women who are healthy and maintaining a healthy pregnancy. Let's question the lack of childbirth education hospitals offer, so women go into labor not fully understanding what is happening in their bodies. It's a scary amount of pain if you don't know what to expect.Flag
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Name: Meredith Forbes on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristen Nelson Sella on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Colleen Grady on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sara Klumb on Jun 20, 2008Comments: I have the right to chose my own type of care and not have a bias expert chose one for me.Flag
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Name: Shari Brown on Jun 20, 2008Comments: This shouldnt even be an issue. Birth does not have to be a medical event! THank you.Flag
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Name: Sonya Pailes on Jun 20, 2008Comments: I as well as the rest of my family believe that it is part of our/my basic human rights to choose where I give birth. I am completely against any and all attempts to eradicate the practice of home birth on a local, state or national level. The rights of the family must be respected!Flag
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Name: Esther Ehmann on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Paula Holland on Jun 20, 2008Comments: I have had 2 successful VBAC homebirths with absolutely no complications. If I had not had the option of a homebirth, I would surely have ended up with two repeat cesarean sections. I am currently pregnant and planning my 3rd homebirth. I would like to see ACOG PROVE that homebirth is not safe. I do not see where they have ANY argument in that matter. Let them keep their nose in their own business and leave midwives to attend homebirths as they have for thousands of years!!Flag
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Name: Amy Cohen on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Stephanie on Jun 20, 2008Comments: My body, my birth, my choice!Flag
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Name: Kirsten on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Jill Coleman on Jun 20, 2008Comments: you have enough control, you cannot take away a families right to birth where and how they choose. we are educated individuals with rights!Flag
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Name: Erika Estey on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Rachel Kovalev on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kemi Jadryev on Jun 20, 2008Comments: It is important that women have real choices during their reproductive years. Taking away the right for a woman to make the decision to have a homebirth or other out-of-hospital birth is a violation of her constitutional rights. If U.S. health care providers work collaboratively as they do in the European system of maternity care, we would not be so low in terms of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in the industrialized world. Trying to make a law based on assumptions and not pure scientific evidence is ignorant and lets me know that what is most important is the money, not the patients. We have too high a cesarean section rate to ignore the facts that modern day Obstetricians have lost vital skills to keep the rates low. What happened to the 5% c-section rate I will not stand here and allow my right as a birthing mother to be stripped away simply because a group wants to hold the monopoly on birth.Flag
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Name: Jill R. Johnson on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Eva Gavin on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Mary E. Smits on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Alison Horning on Jun 20, 2008Comments: As a doula, I firmly support every woman's right to labor and deliver in the place she deems safe and comfortable. In history, it is all but unheard of for a woman to be forced to deliver in a place not of her choosing. Almost all births in history have concluded with a live healthy baby - outside of the hospital setting.Flag
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Name: Audra Post on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Day on Jun 20, 2008Comments: Any law that wouldrestrict a woman's right to choose her birth place is unconstitutional and represents a disturbing disregard for a human being's right to self determination.Flag
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Name: Lori Shourds on Jun 20, 2008Comments: I NEED this to remain legal...it is ludacris to think that the medical research shows great things and yet people want to shut this option out!Flag
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Name: Jennifer Isaaks, LM CPM on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Christa Adle Hammer on Jun 20, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Rachael Aganad on Jun 20, 2008Comments: As a doula I understand and recognize the absolute importance in a woman's right to choose how and where she births. I think too often, too many people have a say in what we women do with our bodies. This is one issue where I fimly believe that this is no one else's decision but our own....especially when evidence supports over and over that a healthy woman can have a perfectly healthy childbirth in the comfort of her own home!Flag