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Subject:	Legality of banning VBAC
Body:	<div class="NTForums_Quote">Posted By Henci Goer on 07/10/2008 12:27 AM<br><P>I can go Jenn one better. Here is the letter that is being circulated:</P> <P>*******************************</P> <H2><a target=_blank href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFCInews/message/729;_ylc=X3oDMTJxc3IzM2x1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE0Njc2MzYzBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MjEzOARtc2dJZAM3MjkEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA3Ztc2cEc3RpbWUDMTIxNTE2NTI2Ng--" target=_blank name=2>Attorneys looking for VBAC ban victims </A></H2> <H3>Posted by: "Shannon M." <a target=_blank href="mailto:shanon.phoenix@gmail.com?Subject= Re%3AAttorneys%20looking%20for%20VBAC%20ban%20victims">shanon.phoenix@gmail.com </A>  <a target=_blank href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/shanonmom" target=_blank>shanonmom </A></H3> <H4>Thu Jul 3, 2008 8:21 pm (PDT) </H4> <DIV class=ygrp-content>Grassroots Network Message 806035<BR>Attorneys looking for VBAC ban victims<BR><BR>Dear Friends,<BR><BR>As you are likely aware, many women are denied access to VBAC (Vaginal birth<BR>after cesarean) because of hospital policies and outright bans. Attorneys<BR>with the Northwest Women's Law Center in Seattle are looking at this issue.<BR>One of them asked us to post the following:<BR><BR>I'm a lawyer with the Northwest Women's Law Center in Seattle. I'm<BR>investigating possible legal responses to bans on vaginal birth after<BR>cesarean at hospitals in the northwest states Alaska, Idaho, Montana,<BR>Washington and Oregon. If you are currently pregnant and want to have a<BR>VBAC, but are facing a hospital policy that would require you to have a<BR>c-section regardless of whether you want it and regardless of whether it is<BR>actually medically necessary, and you are willing to consider working with a<BR>lawyer on this, we'd like to talk with you. Please respond to *<BR><a target=_blank href="mailto:vbacbanhelp%40ican-online.org">vbacbanhelp@<WBR>ican-online.<WBR>org</A> <vbacbanhelp%<WBR>40ican-online.<WBR>org>* .<BR><BR>Even if you are not in one of the states listed, you can still help by<BR>emailing this out to any email lists you are on and asking everyone who<BR>receives it to email it to all the lists THEY are on as well so that it is<BR>distributed far and wide. Thanks.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR>Susan Hodges, "gatekeeper"<BR><BR>******************************************************</DIV> <DIV class=ygrp-content>Here, too, is an <a target=_blank href="http://ican-online.org/vbac/your-right-refuse-what-do-if-your-hospital-has-banned-vbac-q">article on the International Cesarean Awareness Network</A> website on what women can do if their hospital bans VBAC.</DIV> <DIV class=ygrp-content> </DIV> <DIV class=ygrp-content>VBAC denial is a shocking violation of medical and even human rights. There are no other circumstances when a person can be forced to undergo any invasive procedure, let alone major surgery, in order to benefit another person. The argument that the hospital doesn't have the facility to handle an urgent cesarean is bogus. Emergencies do occur in labor, not a few of which result from conventional obstetric management. If a hospital says it is not safe for a VBAC labor, it is saying it isn't safe for any woman to labor there.</DIV> <DIV class=ygrp-content> </DIV> <DIV class=ygrp-content>-- Henci</DIV> <P> </P> <P> </P></div><br><br>
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