GIVE ME THE DRUGS!

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WOMEN should embrace the full pain of childbirth to bond with their babies instead of resorting to anaesthetic drugs, a leading male midwife has said. UK professor Dr Denis Walsh said the pain of labour should be considered a “rite of passage” and a “purposeful, useful thing”. Source Rebuttal Now, as a general rule, I [...]

Pro-life for Mothers

Every single minute a mother dies in pregnancy or childbirth. 80% of those deaths are preventable.* According to a story from Women’s Enews, an anti shock device developed to save soldiers in Vietnam has been used successfully to prevent approximately 500 hundred women from succumbing to postpartum hemorrhage. The anti-shock device that saved Olanna fits [...]

Bristol Palin has a Boy

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After speaking to the politician’s aunt Colleen Jones, People magazine reported on its website that Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston was born in Palmer, Alaska, on Saturday. The baby’s weight was given as 7lb 7oz. “The baby is fine and Bristol is doing well. Everyone is excited,” Jones told the magazine. Sarah Palin’s office declined to [...]

Why yes, I will have a splash of wine with dinner ….

or a micro-brewed beer from the local ale crafters, said the pregnant woman. All of you busybodies out there, you can choke back your ill-advised counsel to her. According to this recent study, the occasional glass of wine or pint of beer will not damage her fetus. The University College London team asked mothers about [...]

The right to choose to give life.

JJ writes about the Blob Blogging Wingnut’s most recent post. While BBW might not personally be a white supremacist, she projects the zygote zealots’ own double standard onto those who support the right to choose. Birth Pangs addressed that slimy sleight-of-hand argument last year, in The Putrid Smell of Opportunism. Here’s the irony: BBW claims [...]