Posts Tagged ‘rights’

February 24th, 2010

Tonight Nicole from Your Birth Right

Many women do not realize when it comes to birth, especially in a hospital setting, they have rights other than what the staff tells them, of asks them to do or consent to. We are seeing this more and more in recent years with the scary birth climate our country has.

Tonight on the Momotics Radio Show at 10pm EST (Remember Eastern Standard Time!!!) I will be sitting down to talk with Nicole Deggins who is the founder of Your Birth Right, and is also a Nurse Midwife, labor and delivery nurse, and a women’s advocate for over 15 years.  Her site offers so much awesome information to help empower women in their birth experiences.

If you want to tune in to our show tonight, you can follow THIS LINK to a direct connection to the show once it starts.

If you would like to call in, we will be taking callers also. The phone number to call in is 347-633-9804

I can’t wait to have fun!

February 10th, 2010

When Feminists Draw a Line…

Since I have been a “member” of the feminism community, I have noticed a trend that is not seeming to change. The number of feminists that stop the fight for rights, and choice at abortion. Once a woman makes the decision to continue a pregnancy, they stop fighting for those rights. Now granted, not all feminists are like that. But this really has sparked thoughts in myself, as well as Gina, better known as The Feminist Breeder. Fitting blog title huh?

I found Gina through ICAN, but most people have stumbled upon her blog long before. But what drew me in the most was the amount of similar views that we shared. I was in instant … sistermance?  Is that kind of compatible to bromance? You get the point…

Yesterday she wrote an amazingly awesome blog about exactly what we are going to talk about tomorrow night, I encourage everyone to go over to her blog and read : I’ve Been Annoyed with Feminist This Week .  She in short articulates everything that I wanted to say. We have these giant woman’s rights organizations going to bat over the stupid 30 second Tim Tebow & Focus on the Family ad for the Super Bowl, but when it comes to an 11 minute segment on an elective cesarean section, or a 5 minute segment on water birth, both giving out horrid information to the mainstream public, screw that… it isn’t important enough.

I am so grateful for groups like The National Advocates for Pregnant Women who are truly working on this issue, and not just skimming over issues like this. We can hope that other big named groups such as NOW and NARAL will follow suit.

In light of this real issue, we decided to sit down and talk on the Momotics Radio show this Thursday Night at 10pm EST.  If you don’t know, Gina also has a kick ass radio show herself called The Feminist Breeder and Friends. Tune in Every Sunday night at 10pm CST.  I hope you tune in and join us this Thursday night.

This is not an issue that stops during pregnancy.

For some more cases on pregnant woman’s rights being violated, as well as birthing women, check out the links & video below :

NJ Case of VM
FL Case of Samantha Burton

It really all makes you think!