we have been discussing this article too, or an offshoot from perth. it seems to me to be a further automatic kneejerk reaction to litigation from those experts at strange who are from the usa. i can just see some insurance company paying for this research, and unfortunately i can even see some women being manovoured into it. can't you see some ob. finding a scared pregnant woman who is vasilating over whether she wants to suffer pain in labour and saying "there is this trial which gives you a 50-50 chance of totally avoiding all this pain........" it just makes you cry. i have run into this attitude towards vaginal birth amoung surgeons and anaethatists when i worked in theatre so its not too far a stretch of the imagination to see where this came from. just the idea of someone being serious aout this research gives me the heeijeebies. it would be sooooo immoral to do this to women. i'm sure that the researchers could somehow write it to pass an ethics board, how i don't know, but they'd get some ethics lawyer involved and before you know it , white isn't white at all, its black.
love Bethany -----Original Message----- From: Justine Caines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 October 2003 16:00 To: OzMid List Subject: [ozmidwifery] C/S in Sydney Morning Herald Hi All The SMH have confirmed the following letter will appear in tomorrow's paper. Justine As soon as safety is mentioned in obstetrics by Obstetricians there's a mad rush. What they neglect to inform us is that many of their practices are not based on evidence and that despite huge medical intervention, safety has not improved in Australia. In fact the latest data on maternal deaths saw an increase. This study represents a very sad fringe of the medical profession. A woman is 4-5 times more likely to die from a caesarean section than from a normal vaginal birth. A figure quoted in the last Senate Committee report into childbirth procedures. It is also well noted that surgical intervention in birth increases post-natal depression. With a C/S rate 2.5 times higher than the World Health Organisation recommends, high incidences of post-natal depression and no report into what seems to be a high incidence of maternal morbidity, this study would be highly unethical and a denial of a woman's most basic human right. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
