
Working to address #ObstetricViolence across Canada
Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada
Joined June 2017
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The Obstetric Justice Project retweeted
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 🧵
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
The Obstetric Justice Project retweeted
Forceps severely injure 1 in 4 Canadian mothers when used in childbirth: study. Click on the image below to read more ↓ ctvnews.ca/health/forceps-se…
Palestinian Liberation is #ReproductiveJustice instagram.com/p/CywWkJRAhMX/
![[Image Description: A drawing of two Palestinian women holding steady eye contact with the viewer. On the left sits an elder wearing red, black, white, and green. Around her neck, she wears the key to the home her family was expelled from at gunpoint by a Zionist militia in the Nakba of 1948. Her granddaughter rests one hand on her shoulder and stands tall at her side. She is wearing a traditional black & white Palestinian keffiyeh and cradling her heavily pregnant belly. She will soon give birth in Gaza under siege. Above the women are the words, “Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice” ]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-iOQTUX0AAyl9g.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT [Image Description: A drawing of two Palestinian women holding steady eye contact with the viewer. On the left sits an elder wearing red, black, white, and green. Around her neck, she wears the key to the home her family was expelled from at gunpoint by a Zionist militia in the Nakba of 1948. Her granddaughter rests one hand on her shoulder and stands tall at her side. She is wearing a traditional black & white Palestinian keffiyeh and cradling her heavily pregnant belly. She will soon give birth in Gaza under siege. Above the women are the words, “Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice” ]
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.
Reproductive Justice is incompatible with genocide. Palestinian freedom is #ReproductiveJustice 🇵🇸
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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/
The Obstetric Justice Project retweeted
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.
"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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"When we walked into our bay at the NICU, we saw someone else’s name on the feeding bottle. We asked the nurse and she lied right away." - St. Joe's Toronto NICU @UnityHealthTO obstetricjustice.org/communi…
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.
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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.
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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:
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STUDY: 51% percent of BIPOC respondents received nonconsented procedures — such as epidural or drugs to speed their labor— that they did not consent to. The corresponding figure for white people was 36% #ObstetricViolence
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