'birth rape' article. Just wanted to share

I read this article this morning about a womens terrible birth experience in the US. Worth a read.

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I read this article this morning about a womens terrible birth experience in the US. Worth a read.

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I read this a little while ago. Not only does it infuriate me but it also frightens me!! Its just so sad!

Most of the comments (on the full article) were complete BS!!

Wow that's nuts I didn't realise there were places that did that... Scary!

That is sickening....and so are the comments.

Just because you are pregnant, your basic rights are not void.

I know people don't agree with the term birth rape. But I struggle to find an equal word that suits in a lot of the stuff that happens against a womans will. Medical procedures, intervention and giving up control of or over your body is what is expected when you have a baby. Women expect it, the carers expect it. It is wrong, but as long as people keep spouting "as long as you have a healthy baby, it doesn't matter what happens to you" it will keep happening.

Crazy. I read it last night and just couldn't believe it.
Disgusting.

Scary world we live in.... unsure

Disgusting. Sue them.

I cant believe they tricked her..thats cruel! angry

Makes me sick. It's my worst nightmare!!!!

if this is true then that is utterly sickening, disgracful and demeaning.

BUT i do have a hard time believing that a hospital/doctors would do this. they risk being sued and all soets of major criminal charges as well as loss of licesnce for the doctors/midwives.

maybe they tricked her into signing a consent form (which is also really bad)at some point but to total do this with out consent is plain stupid and that'a the bit that i find hard to believe.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that room.

It boggles my mind that a woman that was progressing fine in labour was forced to have a c-section. The baby would have had to have been in quite a bit of distress in that case, which doesn't seem to be mentioned. It's hard for me to imagine that a trained medical professional would make such a poor judgement error.

Surely the woman is taking action against the hospital and staff? Has anyone seen any response from the hospital in question?

Having experienced bullying during birth, my first reaction is sympathy for the mother and outrage at the hospital / medical professionals on her behalf. However I've seen enough of this sort of thing to know that one person ranting about mistreatment does not constitute evidence of abuse.

If her account is accurate, I feel very sorry for her and I hope she is able to recover psychologically from her experience. I also believe she is absolutely entitled to legal recourse and that the term "rape" is a fair one;

What else would you call it when a mother is screaming no, please, stop and another person is shoving their hand or an instrument into her body without her consent? Are we not allowed to say “no”? Is a doctor empowered to make my choices for me, hurt me or cut me and I’m not allowed at least the courtesy of saying “yes, I’d like that procedure done” or “no thank you, I’d prefer you not manually remove my placenta unless I’m bleeding out”?
Chantel commented on Apr 17 12 at 8:19 pm

That said, it angers me when I see people jumping up and down and wanting to sue at every turn. In this case, if we spoke to the OB or medical staff, or even read the records we may see a very different story.

Lets face it; birth sucks! Very few go 'according to plan' and even in the most wonderful, uplifting, positive birth stories; there are often regrets. It's something that can never be re-done so it's natural for us to reflect and wonder "what if?".

This culture of finding someone to blame can end up creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. In this case; a c/s is very OB-friendly (from a legal perspective), so if medical professionals are constantly bombarded with legal claims their focus is likely to shift away from a mother's wishes (or even her individual welfare), toward covering themselves legally, leading to a higher c/s rate and so on and so forth.

See this makes me wonder if this is what happened to me I'd sue and not discuss Due to legal ramifications for me
But doctors do have insurance to protect them
Is it not the end result that is far more important than the process a healthy alive mum and baby more than what a women wants to happen In labour or her birth Plan
If this is exactly what happened then it is sad but these days I don't always take everything I read to be fact I like to hear both sides