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      <title>MS Marina Altman [Signature #246]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS Marina Altman<p>Dear All,<br />
Woman's body - woman's choice. Every woman should have a choice how she give birth to her baby.<br />
Kind Regards,<br />
Marina Altman</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Kaitlynn Gamboa [Signature #245]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jul 2019 03:57:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Anonymous [Signature #244]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>my body, my health, my life, my choice</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:59:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Dakota Schneider [Signature #243]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Dakota Schneider<p>I think every women should be able to choose inbetween a vaginal birth and a c-section. Its her body her baby her choice.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:53:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Sep 2017 01:41:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:56:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Adv. Esq. Massimiliano Musso [Signature #240]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 07:54:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>dr oana ciobanasu [Signature #239]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:51:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Anonymous [Signature #238]</title>
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      <title>Ms Erica Suominen [Signature #237]</title>
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      <title>Dr Anonymous [Signature #236]</title>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #235]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:48:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Virginia von Krause [Signature #234]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Virginia von Krause<p>I was raped while giving birth and now I&#039;m &quot;not allowed&quot; to give birth without &quot;assistance&quot;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2016 04:15:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Inas Salih [Signature #233]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Jan 2016 04:26:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #231]</title>
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      <title>Mrs Cornelia Van Onselen [Signature #229]</title>
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      <title>Ms Kaylee Maine [Signature #228]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:56:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Daleth Hall [Signature #227]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Daleth Hall<p>If bodily autonomy and integrity mean anything, they must mean that a woman has the right to choose how to give birth.</p>

<p>Cesareans are at least as safe for babies as vaginal birth is, and they ensure that the mother will not experience severe perineal tearing. Research in the UK also shows that elective cesareans are so much safer than emergency ones that women who choose them are less likely to die than women who choose to attempt vaginal delivery:<br />
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584671/Women-choosing-caesarean-have-low-death-rate.html</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Dr Helen Linklater [Signature #226]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Helen Linklater<p>Elective caesarean section is a legitimate birth choice and women who choose to make an informed decision should be supported by their maternity unit in doing so.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Dr Alexandra Pettet [Signature #225]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:05:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Michelle Melson [Signature #224]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Michelle Melson<p>I requested a caesarean; small frame, small pelvis etc only to be told I must have a &#039;trial of labour&#039;. Hormone drip, ventouse, forceps - then emergency caesarean.  The prolonged labour and intervention that could have resulted in damage to baby, the &#039;rush&#039; emergency could all have been avoided if my request for a caesarean had been taken seriously as a legitimate birth choice.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs julie skuse [Signature #223]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:01:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Angela Lastra [Signature #222]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Angela Lastra<p>I believe that women should have the right, without been criticized by other women. Also I support the fact that information about cesarean and vaginal birth is not given in a objective way during prenatal classes, specially in Canada.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Dr Anonymous [Signature #221]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>It&#039;s time to stop the bullying of women who chose to give birth in this way. Choice means free choice (not &quot;it&#039;s entirely your choice as long as you do exactly what I tell you to&quot;).</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Shelley Sharun [Signature #220]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:55:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs noviannie adiwisastro [Signature #219]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs noviannie adiwisastro<p>Women should be allowed and there&#039;s no question women should be given the choice of having a c-section,even if it is not medically necessary or whether the women can deliver naturally or not. Women should not risk for traumatic vaginal tearing,bruising and scarring and hours of agony. Being in a labor for 48 hours and then torn apart from the vagina opening to anus and sometimes torn apart to clitoris, doesn&#039;t mean you&#039;re a better mother than the one who have choose a planned c-section. Copying a comment from anonymous-16 may 2005 #Why would anyone even suggest that women shouldn&#039;t be &quot;allowed&quot; have an elective section where not medically indicated. We are fully fledged citizens with minds of our own, NOT CATTLE OR SHEEP# - this is the women body, the women vagina and women have an absolute rights to choose what is right for them based on their emotional and mental health as much as their physical health. Women are not baby producing machines. Midwives,consultants and doctors aren&#039;t God. They are partners in our healthcare, not dictators. Women are not ignorant because they concern of their body and a very traumatic side effect vaginal birth by choosing an elective c-section.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Kelly Dutton<p>I fought my hospital for a planned caesarean for my daughter last year and they said no but have me little other options or support. They referred me for therapy but I didn&#039;t start sessions until 34 weeks. I feel there is very little support for women with tokophobia in pregnancy - depression is much talked about but there is very little actual support for mothers pre- or post- baby</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Heather Beale<p>Please allow women to make an informed chouce for surgery.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms sara Sanders<p>This should be a choice for a mother to decide</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #198]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>this is a pro choice issue, it is about an individual&#039;s right to bodily autonomy. That a woman is entitled to make an informed choice and have that choice respected- not to be forced to give birth vaginally when she has weighed her options and does not wish to incur the risks of a so called &quot;natural&quot; birth</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Teri Noto<p>I wanted a prophylactic c-section because I believed the health risk to my baby and myself was getting greater the longer we went past 37 weeks.  I did my research on pre-eclampsia and was frustrated that my doctors did not take my concerns seriously.  They refused my c-section request and treated me like a pariah for requesting one.  My MFM literally laughed in my face.  I am tired of women who request c-sections being treated like dirt by doctors, insurance companies, and the public at large.  I don&#039;t want to see my daughter grow up in an age where she is forced into a vaginal delivery, whether she wants it or not.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Kendal Rooney<p>If every woman in Canada has the reproductive right to abort a pregnancy then should they choose not to do so they should be empowered in their care not demeaned and limited. Women deserve the right to determine whether they wish to give birth vaginally or through casearean, even if that is a primary elective c-section. We deserve to be informed of both sides in a unbiased way and be entrusted to make decisions regarding our own bodies and for our unborn children. No woman should be forced into vaginal birth if that isnt what she desires for her birthing experience. Fundamentally it is inequitable and frankly absurd to say that we have the right to terminate a pregnancy but not to decide HOW we will give birth. Had my elective c-section not been denied, the public system would have been saved 6 days of my sons level III NICU costs, and I would have been saved tremendous pain and heartache.</p>]]></description>
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There are risks associated with any mode of delivery, and it is up to the individual to decide how she wants to deliver.</p>]]></description>
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