For a full listing of columns, go here . On Wednesday, Feb. 2 Gloria Lemay faces the Supreme Court of British Columbia to defend women's right to have her attend them in childbirth. She has been called to face the court because the BC College of Midwifes deem birth to be such a catastrophic event that it must be monitored and controlled by agents screened and approved by them, spokeswomen for the BC government. I will try to go to court this Wednesday, and take my family with me too, to speak up for women's freedom of intellectual choice and physical sanctity.
Birth has nothing to do with the people who wish to control it.
She didn't notice until she got home. I will write the details of my seventh birth as soon as I'm able. It was a birth that has cemented my belief that medically intruding on a birth can only cause harm- a birth that taught me that that birth is as obvious and inevitable as a sunset. Fuddling it with too much legislation and erudition is as ridiculous as legislating and mapping out what a sunset should look like. And if governments, doctors and medwives remain intent on complicating birth for their own gain and keep making life hell for unlicensed midwives, then more women should seriously begin considering unassisted homebirths.