Scott
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I really liked this article from a mother going through her pregnancy. It can be seen here:
Here's the forward to Hannah's article:
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In 2024, my very close friends Chris and Hannah began their pregnancy journey. By that time, I had studied enough to recognise how the medical system—predatory in design—disguises coercion as care, particularly for pregnant women. Knowing its relentless push for compliance, I referred them to Jennifer Margulis’s The Business of Baby (also published as Your Baby, Your Way), a book that had recently shaped my own understanding during an interview with its wonderful author (Interview with Jennifer Margulis). The book armed Hannah with the knowledge to question routine interventions, from the Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) to preeclampsia screenings, revealing a clinical machine that prioritizes protocol over individual need (Cesarean C-Section). Each step of her journey exposed the system’s hunger for control: nurses pressed for vaccines like whooping cough with rehearsed urgency, while doctors dismissed her refusals as defiance. “We’ve done our research,” Hannah told a skeptical GP, her resolve unshaken. Her story, which I share with admiration, underscores a truth I’ve long held: the system, Cartel Medicine, preferentially preys on women, especially pregnant women, exploiting their vulnerability unless fortified by informed resistance.
Hannah’s triumph—a natural, intervention-free birth at The Royal Women’s Hospital—stands as a beacon for expectant mothers, natural birth advocates, and skeptics of medical overreach, proving that knowledge can dismantle systemic predation. Guided by Margulis’s insights, she embraced delayed cord clamping to optimize her daughter’s health (Delayed Cord Clamping) and approached ultrasounds cautiously, wary of their unstudied long-term effects (Ultrasound). She declined the Vitamin K injection, the GBS swab, and the Newborn Blood Screening, each refusal a deliberate act of agency against a one-size-fits-all paradigm. The pediatrician’s claim that she was “endangering” her child rang hollow—she hadn’t endangered anyone; she had empowered herself. Her journey, sparked by the Margulis’s book, is a testament to the clarity that comes from understanding the system’s hunger and tactics. It’s a call to others to arm themselves with knowledge, question relentlessly, and reclaim their autonomy in a system that demands submission over sovereignty.
With thanks to Hannah Kelesis.
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Here's the forward to Hannah's article:
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In 2024, my very close friends Chris and Hannah began their pregnancy journey. By that time, I had studied enough to recognise how the medical system—predatory in design—disguises coercion as care, particularly for pregnant women. Knowing its relentless push for compliance, I referred them to Jennifer Margulis’s The Business of Baby (also published as Your Baby, Your Way), a book that had recently shaped my own understanding during an interview with its wonderful author (Interview with Jennifer Margulis). The book armed Hannah with the knowledge to question routine interventions, from the Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) to preeclampsia screenings, revealing a clinical machine that prioritizes protocol over individual need (Cesarean C-Section). Each step of her journey exposed the system’s hunger for control: nurses pressed for vaccines like whooping cough with rehearsed urgency, while doctors dismissed her refusals as defiance. “We’ve done our research,” Hannah told a skeptical GP, her resolve unshaken. Her story, which I share with admiration, underscores a truth I’ve long held: the system, Cartel Medicine, preferentially preys on women, especially pregnant women, exploiting their vulnerability unless fortified by informed resistance.
Hannah’s triumph—a natural, intervention-free birth at The Royal Women’s Hospital—stands as a beacon for expectant mothers, natural birth advocates, and skeptics of medical overreach, proving that knowledge can dismantle systemic predation. Guided by Margulis’s insights, she embraced delayed cord clamping to optimize her daughter’s health (Delayed Cord Clamping) and approached ultrasounds cautiously, wary of their unstudied long-term effects (Ultrasound). She declined the Vitamin K injection, the GBS swab, and the Newborn Blood Screening, each refusal a deliberate act of agency against a one-size-fits-all paradigm. The pediatrician’s claim that she was “endangering” her child rang hollow—she hadn’t endangered anyone; she had empowered herself. Her journey, sparked by the Margulis’s book, is a testament to the clarity that comes from understanding the system’s hunger and tactics. It’s a call to others to arm themselves with knowledge, question relentlessly, and reclaim their autonomy in a system that demands submission over sovereignty.
With thanks to Hannah Kelesis.
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