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of circumstances.   The leg shackles and hostile security guards must have been a real endorphin-killer.   That poor woman.…
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the cesarean rate hasn't increased sixfold in 35 years because of increased fetal head size.   Evolution has provided a…
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The cesarean rate was about 5% in 1970 -- now it is nearing 30%, rising every year.  It's rapidly becoming…
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And I was very glad to tell my father that nobody tied me to the bed.   Also that when…
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After I had my son four years ago, my 81yo father asked me if they had tied me to the…
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more than anything is the real disadvantages of motherhood under patriarchy, and how this produces women who want husbands who…
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My 16yo stepson mentioned to me yesterday that he had read somewhere that the average American spend $100 on Valentine's…
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(from a jimstaro post in RubDMC's Iraq War Grief daily witness diary, I think).   It had me in full-blown…
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where you could literally just show up, just walk in the door and say, "Put me to work, I'm your…
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AC is definitely an isolating technology.   During college (in Texas) I spent one summer living with other volunteers at…
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Spouse and I are academics, with the privilege in recent years of teaching at small colleges and now living in…
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It is a beautiful, vibrant country now.  It gave me such hope.  I think seeing it was very healing for…
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Good grief.  I guess the powers-that-be prefer folks to be just "generalized" instead of "traumatized" into suffering?  Names are so…
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then what is to stop them from selling FGM to Westerners as well?   I'm not joking.  Alice Walker's Possessing…
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that experience.  Two of my own friends have had pre-eclampsia and emergency cesarean births at around 30 weeks gestation.  They…
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The structures of daily life promote poor diet, lack of exercise, and medical misinformation.  The healthcare structures quite vividly promote…
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The evil and the lies, and often even the hatred -- they all assume this non-threatening, naturalized, world-weary beigeness.  They…
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So here is the crux of the Peace Pilgrim's message:   "This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with…
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Again, good for you.  I can't stress enough how important that is, and I'm grateful to rosieriter for mentioning it.…
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