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I'm a lawyer with the Northwest Women's Law Center in Seattle . I'm investigating possible legal responses to bans on vaginal birth after cesarean at hospitals in the northwest states - Alaska , Idaho , Montana , Washington and Oregon . If you are currently pregnant and want to have a VBAC, but are facing a hospital policy that would require you to have a c-section regardless of whether you want it and it is medically necessary, and are willing to consider working with a lawyer on this, we'd like to talk with you. Please respond to vbacbanhelp@ ican-online. org


Pass it on....

I'm so glad a lawyer is on board trying to deal with this!

I totally agree!! So excited to pass it on!

Here's my opinion on this. No matter what state you are in, they can NOT cut you without your consent.

Our hospital has a no VBAC policy and believe me, we have had this happen. We let them labor and deliver if they refuse to do a repeat c/s. Mostly though, they just wait until they are near complete to come in.

Suzanne

Suzanne: I wish that was true. I posted information on the Angela Carder case in another thread about informed consent. It has a link to the story. She was forced to give birth surgically even though she was cognizant and saying no as they were wheeling her to the OR. She was court ordered to undergo a c-section, and there have been at least three high-profile cases similar to this since then.

Jamie

Ack! I do remember that now. Ugh!

Glad a lawyer has come to the cause.

Suzanne: I wish that was true. I posted information on the Angela Carder case in another thread about informed consent. It has a link to the story. She was forced to give birth surgically even though she was cognizant and saying no as they were wheeling her to the OR. She was court ordered to undergo a c-section, and there have been at least three high-profile cases similar to this since then.

Jamie

Do you have that link or the thread where that link was posted? I'd like to bookmark the story for future reference. Thanks.

it makes me irrate that this happens. I'm glad a lawyer is taking this on.

I think this will bring up the thread about Angela Carder and informed consent.

http://www.alldoulas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18613&highlight=angela+carder

:shame I hate that humans treat humans in the way...

it is pretty difficult tho for a hospital to get a court order.

I'm so sad this type of thing happens.

This could get interesting. I know that one of our local hospitals in 'banning' VBACs even though, if I understand correctly, one of the on-staff OBs has no problem w/VBACs. :shrug CYA.