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Birthrights in the press
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2016
- The Pool, November 2016
- Telegraph, November 2016
- Belfast Telegraph, November 2016
- Honest Mum, November 2016
- The Early Hour, November 2016
- Guardian Family, October 2016
- National Health Executive, October 2016
- Huffington Post, October 2016
- “Maternity rights are not optional extras”, Guardian, August 2016
- National Health Executive, August 2016
- The Today Programme, April 2016 (at 53 minutes)
- Telegraph, April 2016
- Daily Mail, April 2016
- BBC News, April 2016
- Motherland, April 2016
- “I would be scared to be a woman of reproductive age in Ireland”, The Irish Times, January 2016
2015
- Midwives supporting women’s rights, The Practising Midwife, Viewpoint Oct 2015
- UK’s senior midwife speaks out today on issue of pregnant asylum seekers, Royal College of Midwives, September 2015
- Your legal rights during pregnancy and childbirth, Mumsnet
- Women rarely regret their abortions. Why don’t we believe them?, The Guardian, July 2015
- To stop women dying in childbirth, Britain must look beyond easy answers, The Guardian, May 2015
- Sheila Kitzinger was unafraid to confront female sexuality on a daily basis, The Guardian, April 2015
- Supreme Court ruling in the case of Montgomery versus Lanarkshire Health Board, Royal College of Midwives, March 2015
- A vote to criminalise gender-selective abortion will be a disaster for women, The Guardian, February 2015
2014
- We can’t be complacent about pregnant women’s rights in Britain, The Guardian, December 2014
- Drinking While Pregnant Is NOT A Criminal Offence, Marie Claire, December 2014
- Foetal alcohol syndrome case dismissed by Court of Appeal, BBC News, December 2014
- Foetal alcohol syndrome: No compensation for child whose mother drank 57 units a day while pregnant, International Business Times, December 2014
- Mum whose child was damaged in the womb because of her drinking did NOT commit a crime, Daily Mirror, December 2014
- Drinking alcohol while pregnant is not criminal, Court of Appeal rules, The Independent, December 2014
- Court denies child alcohol compensation, Midwifery Digest, November 2014
- Appeal court reserves judgement in pregnancy ‘crime’ case, ITV, November 2014
- Foetal damage caused by alcohol `equivalent to attempted manslaughter?, The Guardian, November 2014
- Couple Backs Calls to Criminalise Pregnant Drinking, CityTalk Radio, November 2014
- Should drinking alcohol while pregnant be a criminal offence? Landmark case could rule damaging an unborn baby’s health is illegal, Daily Mail, November 2014
- Landmark British case to decide if child can sue mother for drinking during pregnancy, ABC, November 2014
- Drinking in pregnancy could be made criminal offence in the UK, Irish Independent, November 2014
- Mothers-to-be who drink could be branded criminals: Landmark court case of pregnant teen who consumed ‘half a bottle of vodka and eight cans of strong lager a day’, Daily Mail, November 2014
- Drinking while pregnant could become criminal offence, say women’s charities ahead of landmark case, The Independent, November 2014
- Ruling may criminalise drinking during pregnancy, Yorkshire Post, November 2014
- Women ‘could be arrested’ for drinking during pregnancy, Morning Star, November 2014
- Drinking while pregnant ‘could become a crime’, ITV, November 2014
- Drinking While Pregnant Could Become A Crime As Landmark Case Goes to Court ThisWeek, Her.ie, November 2014
- Drinking while pregnant could become criminal offence, warn charities ahead of Appeal Court hearing, Belfast Telegraph, November 2014
- Case could lead to drinking alcohol while pregnant becoming illegal, Nursing Times, November 2014
- Drinking while pregnant could become a crime in historic case, Irish Independent, November 2014
- Mother’s ‘crime of violence’ by drinking in pregnancy, Daily Telegraph, November 2014
- Drinking while pregnant could become criminal offence in UK, Russia Today, November 2014
- Charities: Don’t criminalise pregnancy drinking, Midwifery Digest, November 2014
- Criminalising pregnant women who drink is a ploy to restrict their freedom, The Guardian, July 2014
- Alcohol abuse in pregnancy could become a crime, legal papers claim, The Guardian, July 2014
- Attacks on breastfeeding mothers speak to a far bigger online problem, The Guardian, June 2014
- ‘Kidnapped’ by the authorities: meet the woman forced to have a caesarean, Daily Telegraph, April 2014
- Forcing a woman to have a caesarean is an assault we won’t tolerate, The Guardian, April 2014
2013
- angry open letter, Daily Mail, December 2013
- The importance of dignity in childbirth, British Journal of Midwifery, November 2013
- Respectful Care With a Sense of Momentum, Huffington Post, October 2013
- Birthrights Dignity in Childbirth Forum, Midwifery Digest, October 2013
- Birthrights launches Dignity in Birth campaign on Global Dignity Day, Maternal Health Task Force, October 2013
- Davina’s emotional praise for her independent midwife as she backs Birthrights, Best Daily, October 2013
- Less than half of UK women have the birth they want, National Childbirth Trust, October 2013
- A good birth experience is more than the baby being delivered alive, The Guardian, October 2013
- Why are half of UK women not getting the birth they want?, Daily Telegraph, October 2013
- Birthrights Dignity in Childbirth Forum, Midwifery Digest, October 2013
- Misunderstanding autonomy in childbirth, Midwifery Digest, September 2013
- Kirstie Allsopp: Why women often don’t get the birth they want, BBC Woman’s Hour (podcast), August 2013
- Caught between autonomy and caring: still struggling towards an ethics of midwifery, Midwifery Digest, June 2013
- This breastfeeding ‘cat fight’ sets mothers up to fail, The Guardian, June 2013
- Do maternity laws penalise mothers? We ask three businesswomen their thoughts, Daily Record, June 2013
- Birthrights – Protecting human rights in childbirth, Placenta Network, May 2013
- ‘Something should be done’: campaigns for choice and human rights in childbirth, History and Policy, May 2013
- A house of cards: The futility of a service that fails to listen, British Journal of Midwifery, March 2013
- Libby didn’t know whether her newborn baby was alive for SIX HOURS and needs post-traumatic stress counselling over the birth experience. . . so what IS going wrong in Britain’s labour wards?, Daily Mail, January 2013
- Know your Birthrights, BabyWorld, January 2013
- New childbirth legal advice service set to launch, Journal of Family Health Care, January 2013
- Legal advice for childbearing women, Royal College of Midwives, January 2013
- Women’s rights and maternity, BBC Woman’s Hour (podcast), January 2013