Proceeds from the festival's Sunday afternoon art auction will help the nonprofit organization continue its advocacy of attended home birth, and its work to make the option more readily available. We need the midwifery model of care to become the preferred model of care. In Georgia, there are 200 practicing nurse-midwives. Nurse-midwives must have the approval of a physician in order to practice, a situation which Hodges said virtually assures that midwifery will not be widely available. Hodges argued that there is little need for physician involvement in most pregnancies.
Hospitals are for sick people.
Pregnant women are well people. In addition to the Sunny Side Up Band, backed up by members of Thankful Baptist Church, Sunday's musical entertainment included Tommy Jordan and String Theory, the Athens Montessori Singers, 15-year festival veteran Craig Rafuse, Fuzzy Sprouts, Asa Nisi Masa, Soul Miner's Daughter, Vic Varney and the LaDiDas featuring Vic Chesnutt and Todd McBride. But to tire in that struggle would mean the ruin of society. Next weekend, May 16 and 17, the struggle continues in downtown Athens as the 20th Annual Athens Human Rights Festival brings its untiring activism to the Classic City. This year's milestone festival kicks off at 2 p.m. next Saturday and at noon next Sunday, lasting until midnight both days.