Pennsylvania midwife on trial.

Another attempt to persecute and prosecute a midwife, and homebirth.

What it boils down to is this:

Judy Wilson is not a criminal. She is a caring, highly trained, highly skilled professional midwife who acted responsibly and did what her job demanded in this birth. Our experts in the area of breech births are willing to testify to that end.

Judy respected her clients’ right of Informed Consent. Though Cyril Wecht appears ready to lead the fight in limiting the birth options of women in Pennsylvania, that is something we, as fellow home-birthers are ready to fight for.

The unfortunate reality of birth is that babies do die during the birth process, even under the care of physicians. Studies done comparing hospital and out-of-hospital births indicate fewer deaths, injuries and infections for homebirths supervised by a trained attendant than for hospital births. No such studies indicate that hospitals have better outcomes than homebirths.

Given the current fiscal crisis in Allegheny County, it makes no sense to spend millions of dollars trying a case that the parents of the baby, along with thousands of other citizens who have signed petitions, donated money, and attended rallies on Judy’s behalf, don’t want. It’s time to do the sensible and fiscally-responsible thing and dismiss this case before we waste any more taxpayer money!

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