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Proposed Bill Forces Women to Give Birth Alone
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Thursday October 14, 2010 16:26 by AIMS Ireland - The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) chair at aimsireland dot com 087 754 3751
Serious Flaws in Proposed Legislation Drives Pregnant Women Underground to Birth Alone The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) release today reports from women of an underground home birth movement. The underground grassroots movement has grown from concerns that the proposed Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010 will limit women’s fundamental human right to make informed decisions in childbirth about place of birth. The proposed new legislation, the Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010, will in effect make it illegal for a home birth midwife (SECM) to provide antenatal, intra-partum or post partum care if the pregnant woman’s circumstances do not meet criteria set in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Attending such women will be punishable by prison or fee, or both. Many of the women being excluded from home birth under the current MOU and proposed legislation are women who would have previously been able to avail of a home birth. These women are now to be excluded based on the HSE’s misinterpretation of evidence based guidelines which have been twisted to suit criteria within the MOU. |
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Jump To Comment: 1This new legislation is the scandalous conclusion of a long-running attack on independent midwives and women who opt for home birth, and runs directly counter to much-vaunted claims of improvements "within the system".