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Petition to Peacehealth
Keep safe and supportive Birth Center births an option in our community. Peacehealth is closing the only certified Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in our area, this includes the Midwifery practice as well as the Lactation program. There is no viable plan to continue providing Midwifery or Lactation services to the Eugene/Springfield OR area. This organization is vital to the health of our community! For more info follow Lane county friends of the birth center!
♥️Here is the Birth’s Centers GoFundme
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Birth choicesUnited States
10,042 supporters
Created May 10, 2019
Petition to Greg Hunt
Australia’s maternity system is in crisis.
Australian women’s basic human right to give birth where and with who they choose is under threat.
The issues:
1. Australian women face limited affordable options for their pregnancy, birth and postnatal care. Only 8% of women experience continuity of care with a known care provider, which is known to improve outcomes for mothers and babies (1). Rural maternity facilities are being de-funded and are closing at an alarming rate, leaving some women no choice but to drive hundreds of kilometres to get to a hospital. Indigenous women lack accessibility to give birth on country.One third of women experience birth trauma (2) and somewhere between 1/5 and 1/8 of women leave birth with post-traumatic stress disorder (3). These women are traumatised by the care they are receiving in our broken maternity system.
2. The current maternity funding model is not structured in a way that allows funds to be appropriately allocated. It does not recognise additional services being provided by care providers (e.g. being on call, consultations via phone/skype, case review, pathology review, diagnostics etc.). It is difficult for hospitals to manage, reduces financial flexibility, reduces standardisation of evidence-based care and leads to higher costs and worsened patient outcomes (4). Many women who would choose to birth in a different environment or with different care providers are unable to do so due to restricted funding. This only adds to these negative birth experiences.
3. Australian Law requires care providers to have Professional Indemnity Insurance. Currently, no such insurance product exists for Privately Practising Midwives, so the government has allowed an exemption until the 31st of December this year. If the exemption isn’t extended, or if an insurance product is not made available, homebirth in Australia will become illegal, and from March 2019 there will be pregnant women who are at risk of not being able to birth at home. This is an emergency. Taking away women’s ability to birth at home with a midwife will result in more women choosing to freebirth with no medically trained staff present.
The proposed solutions:
1. Continuity of midwifery carer
Midwife-led continuity of care models demonstrate a number of benefits to women with no adverse effects. These benefits include a reduction in childbirth interventions, an increase in spontaneous vaginal births for women of low and increased risk (5) and a reduction in rates of caesarean sections in women of low risk (6). This model of care also demonstrates increased satisfaction for women when compared to other models of maternity care (7).
By redirecting the funds allocated to Australian women for their antenatal, birth and postnatal care into their control, they can choose the model of care and care providers that are right for them (e.g. continuity of care with a midwife). By putting the choice in women’s hands, access to care options and affordability of those services will improve.
It could potentially reduce birth trauma, increase access to care services, increase the utilisation of care services, and consequently increase women’s sense of satisfaction and control with their pregnancy, birth and postnatal experiences.
It would also protect rural birthing services by ensuring that funding is allocated appropriately for any of the care that they provide.
2. Bundled funding reform
Through these reforms, funding would be made easier for hospitals to manage, would allow financial flexibility (encouraging improved models of care and greater standardisation of evidence-based care), drive better service delivery and consequently lead to better patient outcomes and lower costs.
The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority also states, “There is potential to better align pricing incentives across settings by introducing bundled pricing approaches” (8).
3. Extension to PII exemption
Right now, the immediate need is for an extension to the homebirth insurance exemption. Until a suitable insurance product becomes available for privately practicing midwives, this is the only solution available.
The National Strategic Approach to Maternity Services process is an absolute joke.
Mothers and consumer groups from around the country have attended consultations and made their desire for bundled funding reform and a solution to the PII issue known, but the final draft document does not mention any of the above issues and proposed solutions.
Politicians are caving in to lobbying pressure from the AMA announcing that the trend towards midwifery care is unsafe and that maternity care must remain obstetric led.
We demand an urgent review of maternity funding model. We demand that the government listens to us – the birthing women of this country - once and for all.
References:
1. Dawson et al., 2015Dawson, A.J., Nkowane, A.M. and Whelan, A., 2015. Approaches to improving the contribution of the nursing and midwifery workforce to increasing universal access to primary health care for vulnerable populations: a systematic review. Human resources for health, 13(1), p.97.
2. Boorman et al., 2014Boorman, R.J., Devilly, G.J., Gamble, J., Creedy, D.K. and Fenwick, J., 2014. Childbirth and criteria for traumatic events. Midwifery, 30(2), pp.255-261.
3. Schwab, Marth and Bergant, 2012; Schwab, W., Marth, C. and Bergant, A.M., 2012. Post-traumatic stress disorder post partum: the impact of birth on the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in multiparous women. Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, 72(1), p.56.Dekel, Stuebe and Dishy, 2017Dekel, S., Stuebe, C. and Dishy, G., 2017. Childbirth induced posttraumatic stress syndrome: a systematic review of prevalence and risk factors. Frontiers in psychology, 8, p.560.
4. IHPA, 2015.
5. Begley et al., 2011; Hartz et al., 2013; Sandall et al., 2015)
6. McLachlan et al., 2012
7. Sandall et al., 2015
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Azure RigneyAustralia
32,804 supporters
Created January 27, 2019
Petition to Honda, Target, Adidas, NIKE
As a high school student-athlete looking at prospective colleges, there are many decisions to be made: finding the best fit for your academic studies and finding the best fit for your athletic career. For a Black gymnast, there is even more to consider. Do you attend a HBCU or go to a school that offers your sport. Why should you have to make that choice? Can’t you have both? Unfortunately, there are no gymnastics programs at HBCUs.
Edit: As of January 14, 2023, we have 2 HBCUs that have a gymnastics programs; Fisk University (2022) and Talladega College (2023).
Gymnasts at high levels often train between 20-30 hours per week. They start gymnastics at a young age and dedicate their time, and train to perfect a craft they hope will help secure a spot on an NCAA gymnastics team. 104 (out of 106) HBCUs are automatically scratched off that list.
Athletes like Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas have done an outstanding job of representing Brown Girls in gymnastics. Their success opened doors for young Black girls to participate in a sport that had low representation of women who look like us at elite levels. Today we see how much of a significant impact young Black athletes are making in the sport. Each week in the world of collegiate gymnastics, Black athletes achieve top scores and show their dominance. They should be able to perform at that level at their family's alma mater.
Join Brown Girls Do Gymnastics in promoting this proposal by:
signing this petition bringing awareness to establishing gymnastics in HBCUs.
following our social media platforms for updates: https://www.instagram.com/browngirlsdogymnastics/
Visit the HBCU Gymnastics Alliance website and fill out the form for updates and ways to help. www.hbcugymnasticsalliance.org
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Brown Girls Do GymnasticsAtlanta, GA, United States
24,781 supporters
Created June 3, 2020
Petition to United States Supreme Court
women's reproductive health care choices clearly discriminates on the basis of sex.
Overturning the choices based solely on the basis of her gender. Overturning this law would not limit or restrict own choices." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg In support of a woman's right to freely make her ownRead more
Real AmericanDistrict of Columbia, United States
8,866 supporters
Created May 7, 2022
Petition to Fraser School Board
being mandated to choose for a whole school year.Don’t let them take our choices away! We ask they allow for a choice now and an additional choice for the rest of the year.
With these choices it will!!
Please hear our voices and do the right thing! Give us two choices!!
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Alissa MeddingsRoseville, MI, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
387 supporters
Created October 13, 2020
s eUnited Kingdom
2,097 supporters
Created December 22, 2017
Petition to Craig Koekemoer, Life Healthcare Group
South Africa do not have any choices when it comes to birth and it must be recognised that access to thinking.
Sincerely,
Adv Amelia Rawhani-Mosalakae, fellow Mothers of South Africa, and all supporters of maternal health choices Read more
Claire WJohannesburg, South Africa
5,324 supporters
Created March 9, 2023
Petition to Gavin Newsom
patient... SB 163 ensures that families and doctors will have choices!
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Andrea DavisUnited States
2,569 supporters
Created September 2, 2019
Petition to Shenendehowa Board of Education, Dr. L. Oliver Robinson, shenendehowa central school district
The Shenendehowa Central School District has released its reopening plans for the 2020/2021 school year. The current plan has no option for families that desire full time remote instruction. While we recognize the need or desire of some families to send their children back full-time, each family is unique. Shenendehowa is a diverse community and a one-size fits all approach will not work during a global pandemic with serious health risks. As a community, we implore the Shenendehowa School District to offer a full time remote learning option. An option takes nothing away from in-person learning. Instead it increases the safety of all students and educators by cutting down on the numbers in the classrooms each day as well as ensuring each student can continue to receive the high-quality education Shenendehowa offers.
Sign below if you support expanding the learning options for our Shenendehowa families while keeping all of our students enrolled in the schools they have come to love so much.
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Jenn CollazoHalfmoon, NY, United States
854 supporters
Created July 24, 2020
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