I’ve often said that I would far sooner give birth in a truck-stop bathroom than at a hospital, and that’s no exaggeration.
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Industrial obstetrics is the factory-farming of human birth.
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Although birthing livestock are treated far better than birthing women.
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I would *certainly* prefer to give birth in a barn than a hospital or birth-centre, or in the vicinity of a nurse or doctor.
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Even animals that are kept in tragically over-crowded and cruel conditions, are generally spared overt rape and violation during their birth processes (although of course there are some exceptions).
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For the most part, farmers are taught that interfering in an animal’s birth is dangerous, and can create, and exacerbate, complications.
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It is widely accepted that to remove a puppy from its mother at birth, even prior to 8 weeks of life on earth, is to enact abject cruelty.
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Yet human infants are routinely taken from their mothers immediately upon their emergence, and put into small glass boxes for “observation” by overworked nurses, when the most fundamental of biological facts—as well as basic common sense—dictates that the very safest place for a newborn baby *especially* if their well-being is compromised, is their mother’s body.
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Why are humans—women and babies—routinely abused in hospitals, and how have we come to this point in history, where such abuse is seen not only as normal, but as necessary, and even beneficial?
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The clues are everywhere, but one of the most blatant indicators is Saint Rona the Revealer herself: in only a few short months, the ceremonial performance of shame enacted in the covering of our faces—symbolically and actually erasing our selfhood and identities—has become normalized and even venerated; distorted to the point of religiosity.
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Similarly, the ritual humiliation of hospital birth been ingrained into our cultural terrain so comprehensively over the past 100 years, that to decline; to simply choose instead to allow the instinctive, biological birth dance to unfold spontaneously, is to commit an act of heresy.
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We have been conditioned, over multiple generations, to hate ourselves.
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We have been programmed to understand pain, abuse, suffering, and self-harm, as virtuous, commendable, and even imperative in order to be accepted in society.
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It’s fascinating to me, that among the vast array of responses to my recent Instagram post on the risks—physiological, spiritual, and social—of ultrasound, there were several individuals who felt the need to specifically point out that while they agree with me on most of my Rona-related opinions, my critique of ultrasound and the central part it plays in the weaponization of obstetrics, not to mention our entry into the era of surveillance was just a little too much...
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But birth and Rona, just like birth and the wider culture of allopathic pharmacology, are inextricable.
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Obstetrics is the weaponization of birth.
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Rona is the foil for the unveiling of transhumanism.
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The development of the obstetrics and gynaecology industries was one of the first inroads to transhumanism.
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The legitimization of obstetric ultrasound is an important stepping stone towards a wholesale acceptance and even imposition of, the metaverse.