Comments | arobynne: Back to reality

arobynne

Back to reality

Nov 12, 2003 16:54

I spent the weekend in the Chicago area, having a delightful break from normal life. After taking a 7am flight Saturday morning and riding the train downtown, I met up with 8 other women who'd gathered from all over the country (a group of moms and soon-to-be moms I'd met on a parenting website). We hiked around town shopping and eating and ( Read more... )

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queen_elvis November 13 2003, 10:57:52 UTC

This is totally unrelated, but if you haven't seen this article on a couple who were harassed for having a home birth, I thought you might be interested. It's scary.

arobynne November 13 2003, 11:05:56 UTC

I did see that this morning, and I forwarded it to a bunch of natural-birthing buddies. I wish they went into more detail and explained whether the birth was unassisted (without midwives) or not. It's totally ridiculous that so much effort would be spent on this family when there are better ways to spend those police/EMT resources. Geesh.

Thanks for the heads up on the article, though. I don't always check the local news that carefully.

arobynne November 13 2003, 11:08:04 UTC

Speaking of local news, how the heck did YOU run across the article?

queen_elvis November 13 2003, 15:19:05 UTC

Part of my job is (WAS!) to read the national AP news wire, especially anything to do with courts. So I get all kinds of news about lawsuits from across the country. That one happened to catch my eye because of you, so I went digging for a version on the web.