Feelings breakdown:

She played two or three years ago down here in New Orleans for Voodoo Fest.

Midwives at a birthing center within a larger hospital setting seems to provide the best of both worlds. I gave birth 6 months ago in a hospital, attended only by a CNM and a doula. It was a very chill and supportive environment. During the 18 hour labor, I never felt pressured to speed things up for anyone’s…

I agree that there is some overlap (see: my Bradly instructor who I had to defriend on facebook because she was whackadoo), but I think this article points out that a huge part of our problem here is the lack of standardization in terms. For example, my midwives *only* delivered in their affiliated hospital- homebirth…

Meanwhile, abortion clinics in some states have more rigorous regulation than open heart surgery.

Proper training and regulation! Yay! Integration into the regular medical community! Woot!

It’s a sadistic way of reinforcing the myth that women- and indeed infants with no chance at life- should prove the sanctity of life through unimaginable suffering.

you can go down a really long and weird rabbit hole if you look up the “freeman movement” ... just wow. i had the pleasure of meeting one of these weirdos, who happened to be a college friend’s roommate. in a few quick points they believe:

We are probably seeing more of them. The movement received a lot of publicity during the whole Malheur Refuge occupation. I love that these folks drive on roads paved by government entities, benefit from fire and police protection, etc. and etc. but then they are all “I’m a sovereign citizen, your laws don’t work on…

She is awful. She got booted from Science Based Medicine, the commentators were going hard on her every week for misrepresenting studies. She also had a huge problem with midwives. She couldn’t seem to accept that in Europe midwives are fully qualified, highly trained, and totally integrated into the maternity health…

Hell to the yes. Watching her and The feminist breeder go at it a while back was like “rip out my ute now because you are both making me embarrassed to be using mine.”

YES. This is my issue with her. Her attitude is total shit, and whether or not some parents (like the ones in this article) deserve to be treated like shit doesn’t matter. She isn’t going to get any of these people over to her side by treating everyone like she knows everything and they know nothing. That type of…

I hate the idea that those of us who want natural childbirth are crazy naturopaths. I love medicine and science and I know that if I undergo major surgery that isn’t really necessary, I open myself up to a greater risk of infection. Childbirth isn’t something we need medical interventions for in MOST cases. Obviously…

Fair warning, though, Amy Tuteur (aka the Skeptical OB) frequently puts me on the A Pox on Both Your Houses side (#teamnoone) because she can be so incredibly obnoxious about stuff that really is not at all worth getting that obnoxious about.

Their smell is drugs, too. BAAAAAAAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZE.

Is that an earthworm in your pocket
or are you just happy to slay salmon?

That Cat Stevens line was a joke, right? Because there are endless tales of his unholy douchiness.

Sometimes I let him out in courtyard of my building, but not after dark. After dark he gets brave and I’m afraid someone’s going to take him home or he’s going to get hit by a car.

Yes, this sounded SO strange to me. My mother works (hopefully not for much longer- she has had one eye fixed on retirement for a good two years now, bless her) at a FAIRLY unprofessional school, and even there the boundaries between parents and teachers are respected (which gets difficult in a village of maaaaaybe…

So, I’m stuck in the grays and no one will ever see this, but: I have some real problems with this article. The tone is oddly sensationalizing and it focuses on a lot of random and unimportant deatils in a way that seems pearl-clutching and even, at times, strangely un-feminist for Jezebel.