{"id":4061,"date":"2006-03-16T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/defiant-birth.html"},"modified":"2006-03-16T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T09:30:24","slug":"defiant-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/defiant-birth.html","title":{"rendered":"Defiant Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A column in an Australian paper about two women who gave birth to their babies despite the strong medical "advice" not to.<\/a><\/p>\n

Their stories are part of a new collection:<\/p>\n

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Available here in the US at the end of May<\/a><\/p>\n

The book’s official webpage<\/a><\/p>\n

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"I even remember him reminding me that I was not being fair to my other larger twin if I did not allow him to kill the smaller one. This was because I was already at risk of premature birth." <\/p>\n

Mary says she’s sure the doctor thought he was being professional and he was right to tell her her options. <\/p>\n

"I’m university educated and am a pretty strong woman with a good marriage \u2013 so together, my husband and I found the strength (although it wasn’t easy at the time in an emotional state) to resist the doctor’s recommendations and stall for time… <\/p>\n

"How do single women, or women intimidated by the medical profession, or emotionally fragile women, or women with poor family support resist the eagerness that some in the medical profession have to solve what they simply see as a `problem’?"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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