Janet Fraser wrote:
What irresponsible bullshit is this. Someone is telling a lot of lies to
women and articles like this are normalising them and spreading them
further. Choice schmoice. Is it just My Choice to drink till paralytic when
pregnant? To refuse to use a car seat? To lie down in the middle of the road
and hope cars don't hit me when I'm pregnant? To have no brakes on my car?
The reality is that this woman had unnecessary surgery which had three times
the likelihood of killing her or the baby, a massive risk of losing her
uterus, PND, being unable to establish a breastfeeding relationship, PTSD,
and the myriad of other wellknown risks from all the drugs and crap put into
her and her baby. She may have the dubious right to demand unnecessary
surgery in obstetrics but does she have the right to also inflict this on
her child? So if we want to call it choice, would that be her child's
choice?
We need to get back our outrage at the innately pathological act that is
cutting into perfectly healthy bodies for no reason. Endangering our lives
and that of our babies isn't just a "choice" or a "right" it's a supremely
selfdestructive act within a powerfully misogynist context that has left us
with the utterly appalling hospital system we have. Let's all have colostomy
bags fitted so we don't have to be so uncivilised as to defecate. Perhaps we
could be fed via tubes to avoid eating and swallowing?
This stuff is the very acme of disgusting.
J
Hear hear. Love your work Janet.
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Jennifairy Gillett RM
Midwife in Private Practice
Women’s Health Teaching Associate
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