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#midwives

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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Now, the Jackson family, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, announced on Tuesday that they have sued the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), challenging several policies that they argue undermine due process rights and violate state and constitutional law."

19thnews.org/2025/04/texas-cps

The 19th · Texas CPS took a newborn for three weeks. Now the family is suing.By Candice Norwood
#CPS#ChildAbuse#ChildNeglect
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Mesmoiron

@ProPublica I believe the oath was: do no harm. You can have illegal abortion clinics, but you can't come up with illegal care clinics? What's wrong here. We have midwives! For centuries women assisted women in birth! Now it is a male thing and they don't know how to act! Having given birth myself, I would and could assist any woman drawing from experience. I am sure that the sepsis rate would go down! This failure to act is a ridiculous failure of mindset sub combing to tyranny. #midwives

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bs2

> In the month of March, 1848, the students and professors, including Clinical Assistant Semmelweis, were busy with the military affairs of the revolution, and the deliveries in the first clinic were left almost entirely to chance and the care of the head midwife. Under this policy of non-interference not a single death occurred in that month...
archive.org/details/b28978250/
#Semmelweis #SemmelweisBook #MidWives

Internet ArchiveA brief study of the contribution of Ignaz Philip Semmelweis to modern medicine : Newton, Richard Cole : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive18 pages
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Peter Riley

United Workers #Union members at #Woolworths Warehouse sites handling liquor in Victoria, NSW and Queensland are on indefinite #strike
We hear from a #CFMEU organiser who was at the site of a death of a member at a Victorian Wind Farm recently.
We go to the #healthworkers rally for #Nurses and #Midwives that stopped #Sydney CBD on November 13th.

Wherever you are, whatever you do there is a union for you !
3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episo

3CR Community Radio · UWU Warehouse Strikes, CFMEU Death, NSW Nurses out for RespectThe UWU members working at Woolworths Warehouse sites handling liquor in Victoria and NSW and affecting some sites in Queensland are on indefinite strike leading up to Christmas. Dario Mujkic from the UWU spoke to Green Left 3cr on Friday November 22.We hear from a CFMEU organiser who was at the site of a death of a member at a Victorian Wind Farm recently.We go to the rally for Nurses and Midwives that stopped Sydney CBD on November 13th.
#communityradio#3CR#LaborMovement
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Peter Riley

ANMF Victoria - St Vincents’ Private

#Nurses and #midwives from #StVincentsPrivate hospitals in #Fitzroy, #EastMelbourne, #Werribee and #Kew are holding a #stopwork meeting and community rally on Thursday (28/11) from 12:45pm. #ANMF members were due to participate in an online meeting on Tuesday (26/11) to prepare for the stop work and discuss a revised offer received from St Vincents. The revised offer adds 6 items; does revise the wage offer down and does not address staffing and ratios.

Rain Hail or Shine wear your RED t-shirt Image RED Stop Sign St Vincents Building Blue ANMF umbrella Sun shining Clouds with rain drops falling St Vincents Private STOP WORK RALLY Thurs 28 Nov Nurses and midwives from St Vincents’ Private hospitals in Fitzroy, East Melbourne, Werribee and Kew are holding a stop work meeting and community rally on Thursday (28/11) from 12:45pm. ANMF members were due to participate in an online meeting on Tuesday (26/11) to prepare for the stop work and discuss a revised offer received from St Vincents. The revised offer adds 6 items including redeployment allowances; changes to compassionate, personal and long service leave, but it does revise the wage offer down and does not address staffing and ratios. Stay tuned for an update, and get along and support the nurses on Thursday if you’re in Melbourne (meeting point is the Carlton Gardens, cnr of Victoria Pde & Nicholson Street).
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Shocking new from India

The #midwives who stopped #murdering girls and started saving them

Refusing orders, Hakiya said, was almost never an option for a midwife.

“The family would lock the room and stand behind us with sticks,” says Hakiya Devi. “They’d say: ‘We already have four-five daughters. This will wipe out our wealth. Once we give dowry for our girls, we will starve to death. Now, another girl has been born. Kill her.’

bbc.com/news/articles/cvge858d

www.bbc.comThe Indian midwives who turned the tide on infanticide In rural India, a group of midwives routinely murdered newborn girls - and then began to resist.
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Mojo ♻️

An additional 11,700 full-time equivalent employees were added to Queensland's public service between March last year and March this year. This brings the total to 233,933 FTEs classified as key frontline, frontline, or frontline support roles—a 4.3 percent increase from the previous year.
These frontline roles encompass a variety of jobs, including #teachers, #socialworkers, prosecutors, #police officers, #nurses, #midwives, correctional officers, #doctors, #firefighters, and #ambulance officers.

#QLDVotes #queensland #endprivatisation
abc.net.au/news/2024-06-11/202

ABC News · Queensland public service adds 11,700 workers, corporate roles growing at faster rate than frontlineBy Jack McKay
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