From Birthrights UK: "The European Court cases emerging from eastern Europe mark a new legal frontier in childbirth that coincides with grassroots women’s movements in countries around the developed world that seek to wrest childbirth from the control of healthcare facilities, with their sometimes dehumanised and degrading procedures, and return it to communities and into women’s homes. The stark legal question – do women have a right to give birth at home – is asked against the backdrop of this feminist uprising. As so often in the law, there is a simple answer to a question, and a longer one that leaves you (if you’re a lawyer) hungry for litigation to clarify things. Simply put, of course women have a right to choose to give birth at home. They cannot lawfully be forced into hospital. But most women who choose to give birth at home would do so only with professional assistance from a midwife. They seek assurance that this negative right to refuse hospital care translates into a positive right to support at home." birthrights.org.uk/2013/09/701/
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:37:22 +0000
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