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Your Right to Refuse: What to Do if Your Hospital Has "Banned" VBAC |
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The International Cesarean Awareness Network has tracked over 300 hospitals across the U.S. that have instituted policies seeking to ban vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), misleading women to believe they must undergo cesarean surgery whether there is a medical need for it or not. Clinical research shows the risks of VBAC are small and that repeat cesarean surgery carries its own risks. In spite of this, many hospitals have attempted to ban VBAC in order to limit their exposure to liability. As a result, many women around the U.S. have been told they must choose unnecessary surgery or forgo hospital care altogether. Below is a guide for women in this situation. Women who are seeking to avoid other medical interventions will also find this information useful. Read More |
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Attorneys Looking for VBAC ban victims |
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Many women are denied access to VBAC (Vaginal birth after cesarean) because of hospital policies and outright bans. Attorneys with the Northwest Women's Law Center in Seattle are looking at this issue. One of them asked us to post the following: I'm a lawyer with the Northwest Women's Law Center in Seattle. I'm investigating possible legal responses to bans on vaginal birth after cesarean at hospitals in the northwest states Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon. If you are currently pregnant and want to have a VBAC, but are facing a hospital policy that would require you to have a c-section regardless of whether you want it and regardless of whether it is actually medically necessary, and you are willing to consider working with a lawyer on this, we'd like to talk with you. Please respond to
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Even if you are not in one of the states listed, you can still help by emailing this out to any email lists you are on and asking everyone who receives it to email it to all the lists THEY are on as well so that it is distributed far and wide. Thanks. Sincerely, Susan Hodges, "gatekeeper" |
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Click to view the video All of these women were told by their doctor that they had Cephalopelvic Disproportion. “CPD is the medical diagnosis used when an infant’s head is declared too big to fit through the mother’s pelvis.” (source: ican-online.com) All of these women gave birth vaginally, often to larger babies, after this diagnosis. |
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“You can VBAC!” (ICAN) Click to view the video A beautiful documentation of a number of women who were told over and over again that their bodies didn’t work. They discovered they DID. |
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VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean)
