EPISIOTOMY ("THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL") = SEXUAL ASSAULT

According to Ian D. Graham, PhD et al.^^^:

"Episiotomy, the unkindest cut of all, persists despite clinical practice
guidelines recommending its restrictive use...."

^^^Graham ID, Carroli G, Davies C, Medves JM. Episiotomy rates around the
world: an update. Birth. 2005 Sep;32(3):219-23.  PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Ian D. Graham, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Associate Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Medicine,
University of Ottawa
Senior Social Scientist and Associate Director
Clinical Epidemiology Program
Ottawa Health Research Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
igraham@ohri.ca

Ian,

Routine episiotomy is obvious crime - mass sexual assault.

ACOG's "Your Pregnancy & Birth [2005] defines episiotomy: "...a cut to widen
the opening of the birth
Canal." (p. 88)

(ACOG = American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)

ACOG members are slicing vaginas to open birth canals even as they use
semisitting and dorsal delivery positions which CLOSE the birth canal - up
to 30%. [Gastaldo TD. Birth. 1992;19(4):230-1]

In 1991, Shiono et al. at NIH demonstrated that episiotomized women suffer
50 times more severe tears (tears clear to the anus) than women who are not
episiotomized, yet here it is 2005 and ACOG is still pedaling the "we're
preventing severe tears" fraud:

"...to help prevent tears, your doctor may perform an episiotomy." (p. 130)

Since obstetricians obviously aren't obtaining informed consent to
slice vaginas, they are committing mass battery - and mass battery involving
the vagina means mass sexual assault:

"Sexual assault includes genital...penetration by part of the accused's body
or by an object...It may result from...the victim's inability to give
appropriate consent."^^^

^^^In DeCherney AH, Nathan L (eds). Current
Obstetric & Gynecologic Diagnosis & Treatment. NY: Lange Medical
Books/McGraw-Hill. Ninth Edition. 2003:1089

Ian, you and your colleagues say:  "Greater efforts are needed than
currently in place to reduce the episiotomy rate, particularly in the
developing world."

The developing world is very likely only aping the developed world.

As long as obstetricians are closing birth canals the "extra" up to 30%,
their practice of performing episiotomies to widen the birth canal will be
obvious crime - mass sexual assault.

Obstetricians are also slicing abdomens (performing c-sections) after
forcing women to labor with their birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%.
(Laboring on the sacrum torques the sacrum exactly the opposite direction it
is supposed to be moving and very likely NEUROLOGICALLY inhibits labor even
before the baby reaches the pelvic outlet.)

Finally, obstetricians are keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%
when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands, forceps or vacuums -
sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

(The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada/SOGC likely still
recommends the birth-canal-closing lithotomy position when forceps are
used.)

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer gruesome
wrenching of their spines.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly closed
the "extra" up to 30%.

Please join me in working to stop obstetricians from closing birth canals
the "extra" up to 30%.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
todd@chiromotion.com

PS  PARDON MY PROFANITY BUT...

I recently demanded that the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada help stop this and other obvious obstetric crime.

See Royal College of F**kups of Canada?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3872

THE REASON FOR MY PROFANITY

The Royal College brushed off Canadian grandma Donna Young who is valiantly
trying to stop the bizarre obstetric practice of temporarily asphyxiating
babies - forcing them to breathe with their lungs before they are ready -
and in the process robbing babies of up to 50% of their blood volume.

It was Donna who first drew my attention to the statement of retired
obstetrician George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG indicating that EVERY
CESAREAN BABY is being robbed of up to 50% of his/her blood volume.

Instead of reporting this latter mass child abuse, Dr. Morley recommends
that obstetricians TEMPORARILY asphyxiate babies - to demonstrate to
themselves why they shouldn't PERMANENTLY cut off umbilical oxygen and rob
babies of up to 50% of their blood volume.

Here is Dr. Morley's obviously illegal temporary baby asphyxiation
experiment - note his mention of "common sense":

"[T]he umbilical cord [is] immediately closed between finger and thumb...The
[fetal heart rate/FHR] will decelerate quickly to about 60 bpm...the color
will change from purple-pink (normal at birth) to pallid blue
(vaso-constriction and asphyxia.)...Few midwives or obstetricians will be
able to observe...a deep, prolonged FHR deceleration on
a non-breathing newborn for a period of 60 seconds.  Common sense will soon
release the finger and thumb."
http://www.cordclamping.com/acog-cp.htm

Common sense will soon end Dr. Morley's obvious child abuse experiment - and
the mass baby blood robbery child abuse it is intended to demonstrate.

Women shouldn't have to ASK for the "extra" blood for their babies - or for
the "extra" up to 30% in their birth canals.  Most women don't KNOW to ask.

Because the he Royal College is brushing off efforts to stop obvious
obstetric crime, it is indeed a Royal College of F**kups - babies be damned.

I almost forgot to mention The Four OB Lies.  They are whoppers.

See Birth Danger: Cal Chiro Bd - SIMPLE QUESTION
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3526

This Open Letter to Ian D. Graham will be archived for global access in the
Google usenet archive.

Search http://groups.google.com for "Episiotomy ('the unkindest cut of all')
= Sexual assault"

Hopefully, Ian's fellow faculty members in Epidemiology and Community
Medicine at the University of Ottawa (Canada) will help stop the obvious
obstetric crimes.  I will cc them.