@DarlingGirl: "you cannot piss on the term rape and all the people who have actually survived that particular trauma by watering it down to include anytime you feel like others are taking charge of your body for a legitimate medical reason. Don't you dare try to dilute that word."

@DepecheNode: In my opinion, it is never okay to insert anything into my vagina without telling me. Speculum, fingers, penis... nothing. Tell me.

@girlinthegarden: The duty of the doctor lies in respecting the mother. A woman's body does NOT stop being her own because she is pregnant or giving birth. Just as Jennifer Block wrote in "Pushed", a man can not be compelled to undergo a procedure to donate a kidney to his son, even if that kidney would save his son's…

@DepecheNode: Of course first in your mind is your child, but I think that's part of the problem. There are doctors who will tell you that you shouldn't care what they are doing as long as your baby is healthy. I'm sorry, but it's not that simple. I am assuming you have never had this sort of thing happen to you.

@DarlingGirl: I think women should have "ownership" of their bodies at all times. Not only during sexual encounters. I'm not on board with calling this birth rape, but I don't see the difference between not owning your body during an actual rape and not owning your body when a doctor is making decisions without your…

@DarlingGirl: Spoken like someone who has never had the experience of having their body taken over by someone else.

@DarlingGirl: "And I have very little pity for anyone who comes out of a birth—alive and with a healthy baby—whining that people did not take the proper steps to acknowledge her ownership of her body throughout."

@DepecheNode: Uh, yes. A doctor is supposed to explain every single action he takes. When I go in for a gyno exam, even when I know that I am going to be getting the speculum and a pap smear (as an example), my doctor tells me exactly what she's doing as she's doing it. There should be no other way of doing things. It…