Got a minute?
Imagine a system
Predicated on pumping
female bodies full of chemicals
produced in a lab
To then take the sharpest of knives
and proceed to stab
them in the abdomen
slicing through seven layers of tissue to rip open those female bodies and cut out still-growing tiny humans
not yet ready to be born
Out of their mother’s powerhouse
forcefully torn
Not yet ready to enter the world as they should: plump, blue-cheeked and cherubic
Prematurely cut out of their fluid-filled nest, dirty and quick
In the name of pseudo-safety and risk-minimization
But really as a tactic of dominance and intimidation
fear-mongering and trepidation
Stress-inducing petrification
To bend families to its will
No trace of honouring the role our bodies willingly fulfill
If we simply let them
do their work as nature’s design intended
Quivering little creatures screaming for the warmth and nurturance of their mother’s womb while the beaming
operating theatre spotlights blind their tiny eyes
Everyone ignoring their innocent primal cries Poked and prodded with sterilized
cold metal objects by the masked and rubber-gloved
Not a single one of them acting out of love Hooked up to machines unnecessarily
while their mothers hang in the balance sicktired and world-weary
All in the name of efficiency
Some might even argue efficacy
Profit-margin maximisation
The maintenance of contracts with the medical industrial complex’s big players and their professional reputation
The more slicing open and ripping out that they can muster
means the cold hard cash will line their pockets deeper and faster
Babies brought earthside vaginally
without intervention and lovingly
landing right where they should
namelyright in their mother’s arms and staying close to her powerful body
Their first and true home
All they’ve ever known
crawling naturally and unassisted
on her chest
to reach for, latch on to and suckle at her breast
is bad for business
A major hindrance
to the assembly-line model
to the ties to the companies that want newborns fed their formula in bottles
If you approve of the former description rather than the latter
I couldn’t care less if you’re an OB/GYN, medical midwife or a flipping mad hatter
You’re a misogynist in my book
Take a look
around and bid farewell to the system that drags our biology and physiology down and then schlepps it through the mud
Go back to the right kind of school and start from the grassroots
down on the ground and work your way back up
Unlearn everything they taught you in the hallowed halls of “play by the rules”
and educate yourself regarding the truth about childbirth you blind
blinkered
blundering
lying
denying
death-dealing
fools
AN FRAOCH 