----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: slogan for NMAP
I was pleased to read Joy and Tina's comments on
this topic and I agree wholeheartedly with you both.
In trying to appeal to a wider audience (the
public) and attract their attention and support, negativity is not the way to
go.
Whenever one puts down another, they are not
successfully building themselves up.
We need to point to the system and current
attitudes as wrong not doctors. Doctors are just as much victims as
women and midwives are.
Therefore my suggestion is to gain the
genuine support of the community through going back to the very
basics.
"Midwives and Women Striving for a Better
Birthing Future"
I think everyone would get the message right
away.
hug to all
Julie Clarke
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:53
PM
Subject: Re: slogan for NMAP
In a message dated 20/06/02 1:04:36 PM AUS Eastern
Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Dear friends
All these ideas are interesting, but I want to remind
you that it’s not about doctors. The doctors have a monopoly of
maternity service funding because the system is wrong, not because they
themselves have done anything wrong per se.
Midwives and doctors need to work together.
Understanding professional boundaries is basic to getting a service that
is safe and effective for the mothers and babies of our society. One
of the reasons we have such high rates of intervention, and surgical
births in this country is that our midwifery profession is not autonomous,
and is severely restricted.
So I don’t have a slogan on the tip of my tongue, but I
won’t support anything that polarizes the two professions.
Joy Johnston
Hi all,
fantastic Joy.....couldn't agree more.
The NMAP is a plan from Australia's women on what they want in birth
reform....lets be woman centred here in our approach, ignore the doctors,
ignore the midwives and put women and their 'push for birth reform' on the
agenda!!!!! This is one of Joy's slogans from a way back - I think its
simple, effective, and can be used beautifully in the context of the NMAP -
as a consumer led, political action for birth reform in this
country....
The NMAP - Australian women's 'push for birth reform'
!!!
My two bobs worth....
Yours in birth,
Tina
Pettigrew
Birthworks
Bachelor of Midwifery Student and Independent CBE
Convenor, Aust B. Mid Student
Collective.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BMidStudentCollective
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
As we trust the flowers to open to new
life
- So we can trust birth"
Harriette Hartigan.
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