new law degrading women and midwive
כותרת: I am shocked and appalled and totally disgusted with this new law. In the newspaper it says that a doctor's letter is necessary. Other places I read that a medical letter is needed. I am wondering now if this includes a midwives letter as has been the case up till now. But I am suspicious because why the need for the law change??As a licensed homebirth midwife, I had assumed that my signature and stamp on my stationery certifying a homebirth would have been good enough for the ministry of Interior to register a baby. Then they added that a copy of my license was necessary, along with other medical proof of her pregnancy, like an ultrasound or tipat chalav card or doctors letter. This was usually not a problem, except for the cases where women didn't want to do unnecessary ultrasounds, or chose to do holistic prenatal care with their midwife instead of a doctor. Now, even this is not good enough, and in a country that diefies (considers doctors as Gods) the doctors, we now need them to certify that the woman was really pregnant, because maybe the midwife is lying or is just too stupid to know that the baby that came out of her uterus and vagina followed by her placenta is really belonging to that woman or maybe is from someone else???? After all, midwives are women and worse yet,witches so really couldn't be trusted to know .Only the honest and intelligent and law-abiding doctor could be trusted. Of course, now homebirthers will have to pay the Godly doctor a nice sum of honest money to get this letter, or be forced to do blood work proving that their baby is theirs. I am sure that this does not exist anywhere else in the world. Why do I need a midwifery license at all if my signature is worth nothing???? In order to have a license in Israel you have to not have a criminal record and be a citizen. If we are trusted to birth babies safely, can we not be trusted to write a letter authorizing a homebirth???? Shame shame on the Israeli society that agrees to this degredation of women. This is just another elegant way to stop the increasing rate of homebirth which is threatening the pocket and ego of the medical institutionalization of birth. The survival of homebirth and free midwifery is always a reflection of the status of women in that society. Wake up women and mothers and fight for your rights and protect your midwives rights as well. תוכן התגובה:
כותרת: I am shocked and appalled and totally disgusted with this new law. In the newspaper it says that a doctor's letter is necessary. Other places I read that a medical letter is needed. I am wondering now if this includes a midwives letter as has been the case up till now. But I am suspicious because why the need for the law change??As a licensed homebirth midwife, I had assumed that my signature and stamp on my stationery certifying a homebirth would have been good enough for the ministry of Interior to register a baby. Then they added that a copy of my license was necessary, along with other medical proof of her pregnancy, like an ultrasound or tipat chalav card or doctors letter. This was usually not a problem, except for the cases where women didn't want to do unnecessary ultrasounds, or chose to do holistic prenatal care with their midwife instead of a doctor. Now, even this is not good enough, and in a country that diefies (considers doctors as Gods) the doctors, we now need them to certify that the woman was really pregnant, because maybe the midwife is lying or is just too stupid to know that the baby that came out of her uterus and vagina followed by her placenta is really belonging to that woman or maybe is from someone else???? After all, midwives are women and worse yet,witches so really couldn't be trusted to know .Only the honest and intelligent and law-abiding doctor could be trusted. Of course, now homebirthers will have to pay the Godly doctor a nice sum of honest money to get this letter, or be forced to do blood work proving that their baby is theirs. I am sure that this does not exist anywhere else in the world. Why do I need a midwifery license at all if my signature is worth nothing???? In order to have a license in Israel you have to not have a criminal record and be a citizen. If we are trusted to birth babies safely, can we not be trusted to write a letter authorizing a homebirth???? Shame shame on the Israeli society that agrees to this degredation of women. This is just another elegant way to stop the increasing rate of homebirth which is threatening the pocket and ego of the medical institutionalization of birth. The survival of homebirth and free midwifery is always a reflection of the status of women in that society. Wake up women and mothers and fight for your rights and protect your midwives rights as well. תוכן התגובה:
