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Home Births Off The Menu

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday July 02, 2002 18:51author by Malatested - AFIauthor email ireaf at yahoo dot ie

Home Births Outrage!

Women in the North West have now been told that when they give birth, they no longer have the right to do so at home. The “right” to have a child outside of a hospital has always been a battle with the Authorities-who make pregnant women fill out dozens of pages of irrelevant
questions, and submit written applications before they decide whether they are suitable for a home birth...-and now the Health Board has reduced it’s staff (for home deliveries) to just one woman! As she is not permitted to attend a birth alone, and as the North West covers Donegal, Sligo, and Leitrim, women are now left in the unpleasant, and unexpected, situation of having to go to their nearest hospital, if they want some kind of midwife attendance. The nearest hospitalin many cases, including my own, is over 35 miles away. Will we take this lying down???!! I think not. (Report from a Sligo anarchist.)

From the pages of Resistance#13, regular monthly bulletin of the Anarchist Federation Ireland, now available in PDF at our website.

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author by clintonpublication date Wed Jul 03, 2002 13:46author address author phone

whether you are in hospital or at home, you are still going to have to take it lying down.

Mayo?
author by Firewomanpublication date Sat Jul 06, 2002 23:58author address author phone

Is this true in the west (ie:Mayo, Galway, Roscommon)as well?
I wouldn't want to have to step inside the door of Castlebar Hospital. Everyone I know who has gone there has come out sicker than they were or dead. I'm serious, infected drips, Hepititas ,etc.

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