How many of you are parents?
How many of you have nieces, nephews, God- children, or other important children in your lives? How many of those loved ones in your life were able to decide on their own where to have their children? Many of those who decided chose to have hospital births. Hospital births that didn't become a trend until the wealthy, starting in the 1920s, were convinced through media messaging that they were the trendy, up and coming, and the safest place to have their children. That's right, having babies in hospitals is a very successful PR campaign that has been around for a tiny blip in our world's history. You know what has been around since the dawn of time? Midwifery. Since babies have been arriving, midwives have been there. What does midwifery mean? Well, I looked it up for you. midwife (n.) "a woman who assists women in childbirth," c. 1300, literally "woman who is 'with' " (the mother at birth), from Middle English mid "with" -ery or -ary (word forming element) Latin "connected with, pertaining to; the man engaged in," from PIE relational adjective suffix *-yo- "of or belonging to." Midwifery means engaged with the woman at birth. Traditionally these women have been the women elders, family friends, sisters, cousins, aunts. Anyone whom the woman birthing desired to be at her side during this transition of bringing life from her womb into this existence. Women still have this choice today here in NV, and we are here to ask you to leave this choice intact. Leave Nevadans free to have whomever they want to choose to attend them, whether it is at the hospital or at home, as they currently have the choice to make. Families chose to have their babies in the hospitals every day. Yet, when a family chooses to have their child at home, in a familiar situation, they are often criticized, chastised, and told horror stories about bad outcomes. Bad outcomes happen far more frequently at the hospitals although people accept the trauma of hospital births as fact. The numbers back up the claims that, for the majority of births, being at home is actually safer than going to the hospital, and that in the occasion when birth becomes a medical event, the hospitals are there for what they are best at, emergencies. Families are traveling to Nevada to get the birth they desire, because the government in their state has decided that they are not able to take the decision into their own hands and be responsible for it. They are told the parameters under which they can give birth. These medical refugees flee to Nevada to exercise the freedom of choice. Imagine in a year, a few years, a decade, when your loved one in your life comes to you desiring to have whomever they want at their birth, and they cannot. They are crying and saying it isn't fair that the state took away this freedom and now they have to choose from only a handful of people, or go against the law. You will have that on your heart that you were a part of the pain your loved one is now in. Remember you have the choice to keep Nevada a sanctuary for not only Nevadans, but also for families across the country. Thank you for opposing this bill.
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