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2017
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She's PROUD of this attempted homebirth?
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WWJI: Who would Jesus insure?
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An open letter to Lucy Martinez Sullivan, Executive Director of 1000 Days
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Yiannopoulos, Trump and toxic masculinity
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Milli Hill, Queen of Childbirth Gaslighting
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Why I'm marching for science
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The unspeakable callousness of a homebirth loss mother
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Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine publishes embarrassingly weak rebuttal to my plea to save well baby nurseries
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Why are we surprised that Robert De Niro is promoting an anti-vaccine movie? As an actor he deals in fantasy.
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Consumer Reports and the reflexive demonization of C-sections
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You know pressure to breastfeed is intolerable when Kim Kardashian can't own her decision to quit
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When it comes to breastfeeding, The Lancet infantilizes mothers
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When bad things happen to good rapists
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The secret of Trump's success? He speaks to our inner toddler.
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What we can learn about obstetric violence from the $16 million Malatesta verdict: nothing!
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Balance your evil humors the Food Babe Way!
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WTF, Kate Tietje? Five reasons measles is better than autism?
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C-sections increase the risk of obesity by 15%? Big deal: 15% is essentially nothing.
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If bacteria and viruses are predators and we are prey, what are vaccines?
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Dr. Jack Newman, how dare you?
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Pity Donald Trump
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Dr. Keirns, help us understand your childbirth experience by letting your doctors tell THEIR side
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The Feminist Breeder is so not judging you for failing to breastfeed
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Getting your information on birth from The Childbirth Connection is like getting your information on solar power from Big Oil
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A question for anti-vax parents
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The real reason why lactivists oppose the Similac video
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Anti-vaxxers, the real welfare queens
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Why aren't there any ebola parties?
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Celebrities say: Take this medical advice*
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Why are there no alternative ICUs?
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Maternity horror at Morecambe Bay is the inevitable result of the radicalization of midwifery
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Let's review: Is it ethical to promote normal birth?
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Hypocrite! Midwife Sheena Byrom, who has publicly treated a loss parent viciously, edits a book about compassion
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WeMidwives reports loss parent to his employer because I condemned the terrible way they treated him
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Dear daughter, here's why I work (at ending the mommy wars)
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A fine Cesarean whine
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What is ImprovingBirth.org trying to accomplish by encouraging the woman in the forced episiotomy video to file a lawsuit she can't win?
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Guess what the mother who attempted an HBA4C named her baby?
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Why natural childbirth advocates think other women's births are their business: Duchess of Cambridge edition
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More comedy gold from Sarah Pope, The Healthy Home Economist
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Wife bonuses: real or a clever publicity hoax?
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Babies are dying because breastfeeding advocates are lying
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Scientific efforts to demonize C-sections bear an ugly resemblance to scientific efforts to demonize abortion
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Oops! Dr. Bob Sears unwittingly acknowledges that vaccine preventable diseases pose a deadly threat to unvaccinated children
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What's the difference between promoting breastfeeding and promoting continuing unwanted pregnancies? Nothing.
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An open letter to BJOG about homebirth huckster Melissa Cheyney
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I apologize to Monica; her baby had multiple congenital anomalies.
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My latest piece for TIME
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Do Gary Ruskin and Zen Honeycutt care about babies?
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Are the breastfeeding cheeseburger ads part of a stealth Nestle anti-breastfeeding campaign?
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Breaking news! Dr. Bob Sears files for moral bankruptcy!
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Cover of my new book
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World Health Organization's optimal C-section rate officially debunked
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Out of hospital birth increases the risk of death! Who could have seen that coming?
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Ruth Fowler Iorio shares the "beautiful, messy reality" of nearly bleeding to death at homebirth
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Homebirth is like driving without putting a seatbelt on your child
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Why did the Midwives Alliance of North America wait 5 years to publish its statistics?
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Calculating neonatal mortality using the CDC Wonder database
“I've explained many times how I obtained the CDC mortality statistics for homebirth and hospital ...”
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Is the American College of Nurse Midwives lying about the Cornell homebirth study, or merely ignorant of how it was done?
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More mendacity from the Midwives Alliance of North America
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What do Vioxx and homebirth have in common?
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Lawsuit update #12: settlement
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Dr. Amy interviewed on Point of Inquiry
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Which obstetrician was the first to oppose arbitrary limits on the length of labor?
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Jan Tritten crowd sources a life or death decision and the baby ends up dead
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The Internet never forgets
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Let's hold them accountable!
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A statistics professor analyzes the new paper from the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
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Update 2 to the #notburiedtwice campaign
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Update 3: Not Satan, I'm the serpent in MANA's Garden of Eden
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In memory of a baby boy who did not have to die
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No, the new PLOS study does NOT show that C-sections cause obesity
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Wait, what? The "unreliable" CDC homebirth data is suddenly reliable?
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Jan Tritten's Birth Page: to the frontier of homebirth idiocy and beyond!
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How you can tell that another woman's C-section was unnecessary
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Tsk, tsk Dr. Gorski
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What's the difference between waterbirth and toilet birth?
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One good argument against waterbirth
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Jen Kamel, if you can't acknowledge when you are mistaken, you aren't doing science.
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It's so touching when the ignorant band together to defend each other's ignorance
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Eloquent, impassioned, awesome!
“Wow! Wow!!! I don't know who this is*, though she obviously reads the blog. I can't ...”
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Aviva Romm and the quack attack on Glucola
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Want to get money from homebirth advocates? Just let a baby die!
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Homebirth advocates, have you no shame?
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Jen Kamel, your purge of VBACFacts Community is doomed to failure
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Doula Dani's letter to the VBACFacts Community
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Milli Hill and Cathy Warwick on the dangers of childbirth: lying or ignorant?
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Yet another ridiculously misleading obstetric study in the journal Health Affairs
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Milli Hill demonstrates that natural childbirth is an issue of privileged, Western white women
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Actually, I do get to have an opinion on how other women give birth
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Mothers, fathers, midwives and doctors: please share your experiences with natural parenting and guilt
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Monetizing fear: Food Babe shows how it's done
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Midwifery Today, a journal of buffoonery
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What do The Feminist Breeder and Rush Limbaugh have in common? A fear of free speech.
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New birth center study does not show what its authors claim it shows
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If quoting homebirth advocates makes them look like fools, perhaps they should reconsider what they say
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New paper on C-sections is misleading and leaves out important data
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Oregon releases official homebirth death rates, and they are hideous
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Which word in "postpartum psychosis" are you having trouble understanding?
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Jennifer Margulis whines that it is hateful to demand proof
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Homebirth deaths discussed on Huffington Post live
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Lawsuit update 2
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Lawsuit update 3 - disappointed!
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Yesterday I glimpsed heroism --- and preparedness
“ In one single video, you can see senseless horror and sublime heroism. I have lived in ...”
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No limit to the stupidity at Midwifery Today
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Lawsuit update 4: the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Harvard Law School Digital Media Project file to submit an amicus brief in support of my claim
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Lawsuit update #5: Really?
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No, the details of the dispute underlying the lawsuit are not silly
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Lawsuit update #7: We're going to court
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Mother eating her words; baby fighting for her life.
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Sam: a victim of homebirth
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Lawsuit update #8
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Surprise! There were homebirth deaths in the Dutch study that claimed to show that homebirth has lower risks.
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Lawsuit update #9: going to court
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Dr. Amy on HuffPo Live: Do you want to save money or do you want to save babies?
“ As I say in the video, I'd rather save babies.”
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Boy Scouts: Hating on gay boys is out; thank goodness they can still hate on fat boys
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Natural childbirth advocates desperate to pretend Duchess validated their choices
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Sobering thought
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I wish ...
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Lawsuit update #10: good news!
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Dear tech and legal journalists: the underlying dispute in the DMCA case is neither unsavory nor petty
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Another day, another bunch of lies from the Midwives Alliance of North America
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The new MANA blog: the gift that keeps on giving
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Why do lactivists ignore what women tell them?
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Lawsuit update #11: legal analysis
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Melissa Cheyney and Wendy Gordon are feeling the pressure. Hallelujah!
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It's an asshole problem? Well, if the shoe fits ...
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Lamaze promotes misinformation about C-sections; is it deliberate?
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Is The Alpha Parent a parody?
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Melissa Cheyney spews more BS to justify hiding MANA death rates
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Sorry quacktivists, reality stubbornly refuses to conform to your particular brand of nonsense
“Love this! Quacktivists beware; he's talking about you! ”
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Thanks to my readers
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The curious silence on the rising rate of homebirth death
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Note for those accessing the site from another country
“Blogger now redirects everyone to an in country website that, for some reason, doesn't include ...”
The stunning mixture of ignorance and illogic that fuels homebirth midwifery
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Another homebirth horror story
Another homebirth horror story
“I admit it. I cannot get used to these horror stories. I cannot understand how ...”
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The lactofascists strike again
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Birth Plan: the video
“Enjoy!”
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The cascade of non-intervention: Emily's story on the 8th anniversary of her death
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No, the Birthplace study did not show that homebirth is more cost effective
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Idaho homebirth midwives responsible for 3 neonatal deaths pay $5 million for a FOURTH disaster
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You can be a birth visionista! Sign up today!
“I've already put up a post for today, but I just came across this and ...”
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Whoopi Goldberg on breastfeeding
“Whoopi Goldberg tells Mayor Bloomberg to "back off" pressuring women to breastfeed.”
The gift we can give each other for Mother's Day: Support not shame.
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Are you Mom enough?
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Pediatric ER Doc: homebirth 5 minutes from the hospital isn't close enough
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Coroner: Homebirth advocates need more and better education
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HuffPo Round Table discussion about Latch On NYC
“If you can't access the embedded video, you can watch it here.”
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Penny Simkin, hypocrite
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New document on British maternity services is fundamentally unethical
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Switching to a new server
“In light of the fact that the Echo comment system is being discontinued in a ...”
Circumcisions: they're back
“  Imagine that there was a simple, safe and highly effective treatment that prevents the spread ...”
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The problem with breastfeeding in class is not the breastfeeding
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Why are homebirth advocates lauding a sexual predator?
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You heard it here first: new paper opposing homebirth is poorly researched, relies on bad studies and is woefully paternalistic
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Questions for The Feminist Breeder
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Pounding the table
“  Lawyers say: If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound ...”
A cardiologist's experience with a "baby friendly" hospital
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Homebirth disasters: just imagine
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Disappointed in the journal Nature
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Being published doesn't make it true
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Maternity system in crisis?
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Homebirth: parody or reality? You decide.
“Tina Fey takes on homebirth.Obviously this is a parody. If it were a real homebirth ...”
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Mothering.com: Another day, another dead homebirth baby
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Mothering.com: more than 20 preventable homebirth deaths in 2 years
“Mothering.com has inadvertently become one of the best places to do learn about the deadly ...”
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Another needless, senseless, utterly predictable, totally preventable homebirth death
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Mother of dead baby asks: Why does there have to be so much fear around childbirth?
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Ricki Lake has blood on her hands: An open letter
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Melissa Cheyney, have you no shame?
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The pathetic attention whoring of homebirth advocates
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Melissa Cheyney and Oregon homebirth midwives channel the Flintstones
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The trouble with trolls
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The philosophy of natural childbirth is perverse and dysfunctional
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Dr. Amy on Time.com
“Time.com has inaugurated a new section called Ideas, and I contributed a piece:Myths of Natural ...”
Choosing mothering vs. mothering choices
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Home Birth Consensus Summit
“The Home Birth Consensus Summit is underway. There are quite a few people tweeting. I've ...”
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Dr. Amy on Time.com 11/7/11.
“Tomorrow, Ricki Lake is releasing More Business of Being Born, a direct to DVD sequel ...”
Oregon homebirth midwives don't want to obtain informed consent
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Real message of Birthplace Study? Don't trust birth!
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More garbage from Melissa Cheyney
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Reading scientific papers
“"Natural" childbirth advocate like to declare to all that they are "educated" about childbirth. However, ...”
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Avoiding a C-section; precipitating a disaster
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Dr. Biter speaks out and says ...
“Nothing.Dr. Biter opens upHe provides no documentation for his claims of persecution, does not offer ...”
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Trust menstruation
“The Normal Birth Conference ended last week and praised by participants in fulsome terms. In ...”
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The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services emphatically denies supporting smear campaign
“Note: Several hours after writing this post I received a definitive response to my query ...”
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Are face transplants ethical?
“Arthur Caplan has changed his mind about face transplants. Who is he and why is ...”
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On marriage, a love letter to my husband
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Everyone agrees: we're outraged at Nadya Suleman
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The toilet bowl baby
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Is it fair that women pay more for health insurance?
“The National Women’s Law Center has just published a comprehensive report on individual health insurance. ...”
"It will be a great experience for you. You can chop her leg off!"
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Alternative health is pseudoscience
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Ricki Lake: Please stop lying about homebirth
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Clueless devotees of supplements don't know what's in them or who makes them
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Alternative health, the placebo effect, and dirt
“Blogger and alternative health advocate Catherine Morgan has attempted to address my claim that alternative ...”
Ten years and $2.5 billion dollars later alternative health is demonstrated to be worthless
“From MSNBC: Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative ...”
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Updating the sexist claim that pain is good for women
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Jennifer Block: How about a debate?
“Homebirth advocate Jennifer Block must be grateful to RH Reality Check for getting her off ...”
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Andrew Weil, healthcare reform, and my cousin Janet
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Is Down Syndrome counseling inadequate?
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