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Working to address #ObstetricViolence across Canada

Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada
Joined June 2017
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It is no secret that students, residents, physicians, and others are being harassed for their human rights positions. The scope of this harassment is wide. I will dissect one such campaign, how it is executed, and why the template is so easy to repeat. Anatomy of a campaign. A 🧵
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The Obstetric Justice Project retweeted
Our joint statement (shorturl.at/dstA1), with 9 endorsing organizations, calls on @CaRMS_CA to initiate a full investigation into CBC article which reveals plans to target medical students & interfere with residency app. process due to signing HAP letter. #called2theoffice
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The Obstetric Justice Project retweeted
One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
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Reproductive Justice is incompatible with genocide. Palestinian freedom is #ReproductiveJustice 🇵🇸 instagram.com/p/CynekdFgDm5/
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Now is the time to speak up for Palestine, including the 50,000 pregnant folks across Gaza! The @UNFPA estimates about 5,500 due to give birth this month. Where will they go? instagram.com/p/Cyjhaqmg6L8/
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Today, we honour our sister Joyce Echaquan as we fight to protect the health and well-being of all our relations. NCIM is working to enact #JoycesPrinciple by fighting anti-Indigenous racism in health care and by advancing Indigenous midwifery education and practice.
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"I had chosen a home birth to stay out of the hospital... but now I was being threatened by this midwife in my home with the same violence I was already trying to avoid." New #ObstetricViolence story submission on the blog: obstetricjustice.org/communi…
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The Obstetric Justice Project retweeted
If you are fat, your life matters. Your baby’s life matters. You deserve equal, respectful, accessible, comprehensive medical care, just like everyone else. And that is why I am pursuing a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. thetyee.ca/News/2022/07/13/M…
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Sara Lindberg is pursuing a human rights complaint against Dr. Rick Mentz and the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia for the anti-fat discrimination that deprived her of the same standard of care afforded to people with lower BMIs. thetyee.ca/News/2022/07/13/M…
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CPSO complaint: parents allege that the doctor caused a scalp clip injury to their baby during labour; failed to obtain informed consent for a vacuum delivery; failed to meet with the family to discuss what happened despite requests to do so; and more: cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/b…
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*A scalp clip is a metal electrode that a doctor twists into a baby's scalp, much like a small screw, for continuous fetal heartrate monitoring.