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Medical Forum / General / Alternative / December 2006Birth child abuse: The Bradley Method's 'Classic' Trap
BIRTH CHILD ABUSE: THE BRADLEY METHOD'S "CLASSIC" TRAP Bradley Method (Jay Hathaway/info@aahcc.com) is located in Sherman Oaks, California. Attention LAPD Officer JAMES MILLER, Van Nuys (Sherman Oaks) area commanding officer. This report of mass child abuse by MD-obstetricians - perhaps still promoted by Jay Hathaway - is being emailed via questions@lapdonline.org. Officer Miller, please see the arrogant boast of Steve B. Harris, MD, below... THE ABUSE (sometimes fatal)... American medicine's latest delivery position, semisitting, closes the birth canal up to 30% - just like dorsal lithotomy closes up to 30%. For clinical and radiographic references from last century, see Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth. 1992;19(4):230-1. The Bradley Method brought fathers into this obviously criminal act. According to the Bradley Method website (quoting the late Dr. Bradley): "It is husband's job...to help her into a semi-sitting position." http://www.bradleybirth.com/WIHCC.aspx Apparently, the birth-canal-closing semi-sitting position is still called "the Bradley Classic" in the Bradley Method Student Workbook... Bradley Method leaders Marjie and Jay Hathaway say: "If your teacher...does not include a Student Workbook...please contact The Academy at info@aahcc.com..." http://www.bradleybirth.com/ See Jay Hathaway's bizarre behavior YEARS ago, below. I wrote: An upside to MDs stomping homebirth (also: the Bradley Workbook) http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/432ce4d8f5a2788e Bradley Method childbirth educator Lisa Whitener (birth junkie) replied... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/400bcc10f1eee63e In her reply, Bradley Method child birth educator Lisa (birthjunkie) referred to the Bradley "Classic" (semisitting) as a HOSPITAL trap. It's both, unfortunately... It's obvious child abuse to close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30%. It's obvious child abuse to KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck... It is time for all Bradley Method instructors to speak out and get the birth-canal-closing "Bradley Classic" out of the Workbook - assuming it is still there (see Lisa's remarks below)... Bradley Method instructors who, like me, suspect it is child abuse for MDs to lie and close birth canals the "extra" up to 30% - should report and urge mandatory reporters (RNs and MDs) to report if they too suspect mass child abuse by MDs... (My further comments are interspersed ####) Lisa (birth junkie) asserted that there wasn't ANY upside to MDs stomping homebirth. I disagreed... > > NO SARCASM WAS INTENDED > > > > Lisa (birthjunkie) and I will have to agree to disagree... > > > > I say there *is* an upside to MDs stomping homebirth: More obstetric > > surgical specialists are there if hospital transport becomes necessary. > > > > If a woman and/or her fetus are in need of an obstetric surgical > > specialist, it matters not that the obstetric surgical specialist is > > only there because of organized medicine's past and present stomping of > > homebirth - I am glad that there is a specialist there to save a life. > > > > For that specific woman and/or her fetus, there is a DEFINITE upside to > > organized medicine's stomping of homebirth and homebirth-midwives. > > > > That said, I realize that this upside came in part as a result of a > > downside - a HUGE downside.. Lisa (birthjunkie) replied: > Yes, a HUGE downside. The scales are NOT balanced. There is a small > percentage of women that actually require obstetrical care. ##### I'm assuming that you are acknowledging that there is an upside to having obstetric surgical specialists around - regardless of why they are there. > Quite > small, actually. Our society has been brainwashed into thinking that > childbirth is rought with danger and emergencies. Not so. ##### Bradley Method apparently still makes a "classic" out of the birth-canal-closing semisitting position - I'm assuming Lisa that you are (below) acknowledging that the Bradley Student Workbook still pictures/promotes birth-canal-closing/"the Bradley Classic" delivery position. > I am not so naive to believe that childbirth is unpredicatable, though. > > And that a very small % of women and babies will require surgical > intervention. ##### Again, I'm assuming that you are acknowledging that for the specific mothers and babies who need them there is an upside to having obstetric surgical specialists around - regardless of why they are there. > But that fact doesn't condone the underhanded and greedy > fashion in which obstetricas has taken control of birth in America. ##### You are taking MY point - and throwing it back at me as if it was yours. > Nor do I don't condone the way women have allowed this to happen. ##### Your train of logic just took a dirt road. This is classic "blame the victim" talk. A struggle took place. The struggle is ongoing - it involves BOTH men and women fighting obstetrics. But the fact is, obstetrics has largely won the fight - with some men and women still fighting like hell - as other men and women - people like Jay Hathaway (and you, Lisa) in effect promote obvious obstetric crimes. >I > have an MBA. It's a classic example of Supply and Demand. Until women > wake up and smell the disservice, the wheels of change will be > remarkably slow. We have the power to change the system, but it will > continue to be lobbied against by those with a alterior motives and > vested financial interests. ##### When obvious obstetric crimes are being committed, the solution is NOT for Lisa to publicly wave her MBA and publicly pretend that law enforcement should not be called upon to stop obstetric crimes which sometimes kill. #### A better solution is - for example - to point the People (men and women) to the fact that "the People" (law enforcement) is bizarrely failing to protect the tiniest People. THE PROBLEM... >>>>BEGIN excerpt from: Warning to Yuma Hospital District One... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/8b0743717a886494 LAW ENFORCEMENT IS LOOKING THE OTHER WAY Arizona Atty Gen'l Terry Goddard's office seems to indicate that, in Arizona, COUNTY law enforcement must do the job - either that or state agencies like the AZ Medical Board must decide to act before the AZ Atty Gen'l can act... Here is the email I received from Arizona Atty Gen'l Terry Goddard's office... ----- Original Message ----- From: "CRD Community Outreach Calendar CRD Community Outreach Calendar" <CommunityServices@azag.gov> To: "Todd Gastaldo" <tgastaldo@earthlink.net> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Reporting obstetrics as 'gang-related crime' (mass child abuse) Dr. Gastaldo, Arizona is a unique state in some ways in that counties have precedence over most criminal issues. IE: "they do not work for nor report to the Attorney General". That said, there are several boards & commissions and then state agencies that we represent as clients if they decide on any enforcement actions or defend them in court as well. Who you need to contact is the Arizona State Medical Board. I will post their information below but it is probably your best way to get your issue addressed. The board actually has enforcement powers and rule setting ability state-wide or you can contact an Arizona state legislator to change Arizona law. http://www.azmdboard.org/ To file a complaint against a particular M.D: http://www.azmdboard.org/Forms/md_complaint.pdf To file a complaint online: http://www.azmdboard.org/complaints/Instructions.asp Here is a list of legislators if you decide on that route: Arizona State Senate: http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=S Arizona State House: http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H >>>>>END email to Dr. Gastaldo from Atty Genl Terry Goddard's office THERE IS NO NEED FOR NEW LAWS... OBVIOUS MEDICAL FRAUD/DECEPTION IS BEING COMMITTED... Babies are sometimes DYING as a consequence. RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS.... "[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage in fraud or deception." "[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are contrary to the best interests of the patient." "[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to patients, colleagues, and the public..." http://www.psych.org/psych_pra ct/ethics/ethics_opinions53101.cfm THE PROBLEM: LAW ENFORCEMENT RARELY PROSECUTES MD CRIME... In 1995, an MD - Dr. Einaugler - contended that he shouldn't have been criminally prosecuted because criminal prosecution of doctors is "unprecedented." [Nossiter A. A mistake, a rare prosecution, and a doctor is headed for jail. New York Times (Mar16)1995:front page] AMA general counsel Kirk Johnson (who later resigned in the AMA/Sunbeam fiasco) echoed Einaugler's sentiment, telling the Times that physicians have "never before" been subject to criminal prosecution in New York; and that criminal prosecution is "extraordinarily uncommon" anywhere in the nation. AMA executive vice-president James Todd, MD chimed in, assuring the Times that "Society has been poorly served by this decision" - doctors "traditionally" handle such matters through "peer review and malpractice," he said. Traditional "peer review" resulted in NO Medical Board penalty for Einaugler, because the Medical Board found that his "clear and obvious" failure to act - after subjecting his patient to an "enormous anatomical insult" - was not a "flagrant or dramatic departure from standards." As stated clearly in the Times article, Dr. Einaugler was not prosecuted for "making a mistake," but rather for covering up his mistake and calling the cover-up medical decision-making. This is JUST like MD-obstetrician experts lying to cover-up the birth-canal-closing... Again, for the Four OB Cover-up Lies (they are whoppers)... See Dents in babies' skulls" http://groups.google.com/group/ misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/08abfc7ff242150e Alternate URL: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3897 Steve B. Harris, MD arrogantly BOASTS about law enforcement looking the other way, as in, "Without enforcement, there is no law. Without law, there is no crime. These are elementary principles. Get an adult to explain them to you." http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/28866f3384801ae9 Adults should be standing up for babies - not boasting about other adults looking the other way as babies are abused en masse. I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students, MDs are TRAINED to perform obvious felonies. >>>>END excerpt from: Warning to Yuma Hospital District One... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/8b0743717a886494 #### I acknowledged that knowledge is power... > > Knowledge is indeed power. > > > > Women shouldn't have to ask for the "extra" up to 30%... > > > > Most women don't KNOW to ask. > > > > Women shouldn't HAVE to know to ask - law enforcement should take > > immediate action to stop the MD crime. #### Lisa (birthjunkie) initially agreed, as in, > AGREED. #### But then Lisa's train of logic again took a dirt road... > Women should not have to ask to do what comes naturally. > Unfortunately, that's the reality of the situation. The majority of > women choose to give birth in hospitals attended by obstetricians. #### The majority of women do NOT however choose to have their birth canals senselessly closed the "extra" up to 30%. > For > the overwhelming majority of women, it's a choice. ##### Nope. Obstetrics has largely won a battle. Obstetrics is falsely being presented as "science" - with Bradley Method helping with the routine birth-canal-closing - one of the greatest falsehoods of obstetrics.... > Unlike you, I don't > think the answer lies with law enforcement. ##### Obvious CRIME is being committed. MD-obstetricians are lying as babies are dying. Law enforcement is looking the other way - this is true - but this is only temporary. > WOMEN need to wake up and > educate themselves about their own bodies. Again, supply and demand. ##### Lisa's train of logic again takes a dirt road. Women have been ROBBED - "scientifically" - by powerful "scientific" CULTURAL AUTHORITIES. #### Women and babies are being literally assaulted - infant penises senselessly sliced amid screams of agony - and adult vaginas senselessly sliced ostensibly to open birth canals even as obstetricians lie and senselessly close birth canals the "extra" up to 30%. #### Bizarrely, Bradley Method has been helping with the birth-canal-closing. #### I wrote: > >Seaking of doing things by "the book," the American Academy of Husband > > Coached Childbirth/AAHCC's Bradley Method workbook used to picture the > > birth-canal-closing semisitting position and call it "the Bradley > > Classic." > > > > I mention this (ongoing?) AAHCC/Bradley promotion of > > birth-canal-closing because it looks like Lisa (birthjunkie) is (or > > was) an AAHCC/Bradley Method child birth educator, as in, > > > > Lisa Whitener, AAHCC Livonia, MI 248-798-9454 > > http://www.mothersownbirth.com/childbirth%20educators.html > > > > Lisa, assuming you are the Livonia, Michigan AAHCC childbirth educator, > > do you know if the AAHCC/Bradley workbook still pictures > > semisitting/closing the birth canal up to 30% and calls it "the Bradley > > Classic"? > > > > Could you look in the current Bradley Workbook and see if "the Bradley > > classic" (semisitting) is still pictured/promoted? > > > > Does anyone else know? > > > > Knowledge is indeed power - but some knowledge is perverted - perhaps > > intentionally - to help obviously criminal enterprises maintain > > ILLEGITIMATE power. #### Bradley Method instructor Lisa fails to explicitly answer the question. #### She writes: > Yes, I am a Bradley instructor--although that's not an updated listing. > You'll be happy to know that I have always promoted squatting for > birth. #### This was JAY HATHAWAY'S answer years ago - when I pointed out that his workbook promoted birth-canal-closing/semisitting as "the Bradley Classic." (!) > I absolutely has issues with the Bradley workbook and some of > it's teachings. #### JAY HATHAWAY told me this over dinner years ago - said he'd change his workbook - but (apparently) he never did! > I have no problem bringing attention to these things > (and I say that knowing that I could be "let go" as an official > instructor by sharing my disagreements publicly). #### Please do "bring attention" to the fact that Bradley Method guru Jay Hathaway indirectly perpetuates the MD-obstetrician practices of senselessly closing birth canals up to 30% and senselessly KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck. #### Please do "bring attention" the fact that Bradley Method guru Jay Hathaway LIED when he said he'd stop promoting birth-canal-closing/semisitting as "the Bradley Classic." #### Jay Hathaway's "official instructor" game must take a back seat (finally) to helping babies. > Bradley DOES, in fact, promote squatting (mentioned several times in > the Workbook and in the text) as the BEST position for birth (because > of opening of the outlet of the pelvis), ##### But squatting may NOT be the best position for birth - not in a culture where girls are robbed as children of their comfortable prolonged squatting ability. ##### There are plenty of other delivery positions which allow the pelvis to open maximally. > but [Bradley Method - TDG] understands that many > hospitals will automatically get mom into the "classic" position during > birth. ### Bradley Method is aiding and abetting MD-obstetricians in committing mass child abuse. ### NOTE: Naomi Pardue, knowing that semisitting closes the birth canal up to 30%, once wrote: "I'd had an epidural. I couldn't stand up, much less squat or kneel. But no, it wasn't that I wasn't 'in the mood for a change', or 'too inside my labor to be bothered.' As I said, I worked with the nurse to find a position that I could push in comfortably. Once I was in that position, I couldn't see any particular reason to change. (I was sitting up on the bed, with stirrups supporting my legs and giving me something to push against.)" http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/d06a817754138046 #### An estimated 4.6% of "healthy" term babies suffers unexplained brain bleeds - and Australian obstetrician Norman Beischer, MD once guessed that 10% of stillbirths were just fine right before delivery. There are "particular reasons" not to close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30%. > I think they're too "soft" in regards to this issue. #### I think YOU are too soft on this issue. Since when can MD-obstetricians legally close birth canals up to 30%? Since when can MD-obstetricians legally KEEP birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck? > Bradley > is well-known for getting women to advocate for their options and learn > to say "no" to routine interventions, so I've never understood why > they'd be so "easy" on the importance of positioning. ##### I've never understood this either. See my interaction with Jay Hathaway below. > I have yet to > see the newest version of the workbook, however, so I can't say whether > it's been amended. I could put out an email and find out. #### Jay Hathaway drove from Southern California to Northern California to learn the biomechanics from me on my living room floor YEARS ago - then took me and my wife out to dinner and promised to get the birth-canal-closing promotion out of his workbook YEARS ago... This was back around the time that I was telling Doris Haire ("Cultural Warping of Childbirth") that semisitting is NOT "the physiological position for childbirth" as she (perhaps still) avers... > When *I* teach the pushing phase of labor, I don't use the workbook at > all. In a nutshell, I say this: > > "The one thing you need to understand about pushing is that you must > listen to your body. Your body knows what to do. If you were in the > woods, alone, no one would have to tell you how to give birth. It's > instinctual. In a hospital setting it's harder to tap into our > instinctual brain, because our instincts tend to run counter to > hospital standards and protocols. If you can remember to stay off your > tailbone and push to the point of comfort and only hold your breath for > as long as is comfortable, the rest will follow. It's called > physiological pushing and I support it wholeheartedly. Supine and > semi-reclined pushing will inhibit the baby from passing through the > pelvis AND can cause perenial trauma. So, get upright!!!!!" #### Why not say what the radiographic studies say: Semisitting and dorsal CLOSE the birth canal - up to 30%? Why not say that MD-obstetricians are senselessly KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck? #### Why not send an immediate email out to Jay Hathaway and all Bradley Method instructors and tell them that this simple, powerful message should be written in every student workbook that has "the Bradley Classic" pictured. > Now, I will tell you that many of my clients fall into the hospital > trap when it comes to pushing. #### But it's a BRADLEY trap! Bradley Method powerfully promotes the senseless birth-canal-closing that goes on in hospitals! > It's quite disconcerting as an > instructor of natural childbirth. You can lead a horse to water.... #### Please report the obvious, massive birth crime - and urge MDs and RNs (mandatory reporters) to report. #### Join me in calling for pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students they are TRAINED to perform obvious felonies. #### Get the birth-canal-closing "Bradley Classic" out of the workbook if it is still there. > I love Janet Balaskas' book "Active Birth". It's what every woman > should know. It's sooooooo darn logical, it hurts to think that the > majority of women will never experience it. > > Lisa #### The emotional pain you indicate you are feeling is, I am sure, nothing compared to what a baby feels. REMEMBER: With birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% - MD-obstetricians are actually ripping baby scalps from baby skulls with vacuums.. #### Compelling MD-obstetricians to allow birth canals to open maximally when babies get stuck isn't going to prevent all vacuum births - it's just that MD-obstetricians have no business keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck. #### Similarly, Jay Hathaway had no business keeping the birth-canal-closing "Bradley Classic" in the Student Workbook after I told him the simple birth-canal-closing biomechanics and he promised to get it out... #### I'm emailing Jay via info@aahcc.com. I hope others will email him as well. #### Jay Hathaway helped perpetuate mass child abuse by MDs. #### Jay Hathaway may STILL be perpetuating mass child abuse by MDs. #### Todd #### Dr. Gastaldo #### Hillsboro, Oregon #### USA #### todd@chiromotion.com This post will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for Birth child abuse: The Bradley Method 'Classic' Trap. Todd, please stop taking my words out of context. Perhaps if you weren't so negative and militant, you would be making better progress in this mission you have. Your words are a complete turn-off. You obviously have a personal "beef" with Jay Hathaway, but please do not go around telling people that Bradley "powerfully promotes" positions that kill babies in labor and birth. I've told you time and time again that Bradley educates women about options, and then the WOMAN decides how her birth will be managed. It's called informed consent. It's what Bradley teaches. A big part of that is WHO she chooses to attend her birth. If my clients would all choose homebirth, positioning wouldn't be an issue. But they don't. And it's not my place to persuade them to. I'm done conversing with you. You only hear what you want to hear. I have to wonder what your alterior motives are.... Lisa ULTERIOR MOTIVE? "It is established obstetric teaching that a narrow pelvic outlet predisposes to a difficult vaginal delivery..." --a.s-?rztin Dr. Andrea Froschauer-Frudinger et al. [Br J Obstet Gynaecol 2002;109(11):1207-12] #### Bradley Method PROMOTES semisitting - narrowing the pelvic outlet. #### Bradley Method instructor Lisa Whitener pretends that promotion of this obvious crime is OK. Todd, please stop taking my words out of context. Perhaps if you weren't so negative and militant, you would be making better progress in this mission you have. Your words are a complete turn-off. You obviously have a personal "beef" with Jay Hathaway, but please do not go around telling people that Bradley "powerfully promotes" positions that kill babies in labor and birth. I've told you time and time again that Bradley educates women about options, and then the WOMAN decides how her birth will be managed. It's called informed consent. It's what Bradley teaches. #### A picture of semisitting/birth-canal-closing in the Bradley Method Student Workbook teaches women that semisitting/birth-canal-closing is "the Bradley Classic." #### Bradley promotes semisitting/birth-canal-closing - up to 30%. Obstetric texts indicate that closing the birth canal far less than 30% can kill. A big part of that is WHO she chooses to attend her birth. If my clients would all choose homebirth, positioning wouldn't be an issue. But they don't. And it's not my place to persuade them to. #### Homebirth midwife Jan Tritten promoted semisitting as a "midwifery trick of the trade." I'm done conversing with you. You only hear what you want to hear. I have to wonder what your alterior motives are.... Lisa #### ULTERIOR... Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive: an ulterior motive. #### I am not the one doing the deceiving. #### I say again: Attention LAPD Officer JAMES MILLER, Van Nuys (Sherman Oaks) area commanding officer. This report of mass child abuse by MD-obstetricians - perhaps still promoted by Jay Hathaway - is being emailed via questions@lapdonline.org. Officer Miller, please see the arrogant boast of Steve B. Harris, MD, below... THE ABUSE (sometimes fatal)... American medicine's latest delivery position, semisitting, closes the birth canal up to 30% - just like dorsal lithotomy closes up to 30%. For clinical and radiographic references from last century, see Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth. 1992;19(4):230-1. The Bradley Method brought fathers into this obviously criminal act. According to the Bradley Method website (quoting the late Dr. Bradley): "It is husband's job...to help her into a semi-sitting position." http://www.bradleybirth.com/WIHCC.aspx Apparently, the birth-canal-closing semi-sitting position is still called "the Bradley Classic" in the Bradley Method Student Workbook... Bradley Method leaders Marjie and Jay Hathaway say: "If your teacher...does not include a Student Workbook...please contact The Academy at info@aahcc.com..." http://www.bradleybirth.com/ See Jay Hathaway's bizarre behavior YEARS ago, below. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Gastaldo" <tgastaldo@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.kids.pregnancy,misc.health.alternative Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:47 AM Subject: Birth child abuse: The Bradley Method's 'Classic' Trap > BIRTH CHILD ABUSE: THE BRADLEY METHOD'S "CLASSIC" TRAP > [quoted text clipped - 546 lines] > archive. Search http://groups.google.com for Birth child abuse: The > Bradley Method 'Classic' Trap. HELPING THE TINIEST PEOPLE ENTER LA SAFELY: LAPD ONLINE FORWARDS BIRTH CHILD ABUSE: THE BRADLEY METHOD'S "CLASSIC" TRAP See below. CAPT. MILLER (via millerj@lapd.lacity.org): "It is established obstetric teaching that a narrow pelvic outlet predisposes to a difficult vaginal delivery..." --a.s-?rztin Dr. Andrea Froschauer-Frudinger et al. [Br J Obstet Gynaecol 2002;109(11):1207-12] EMERGENCY: MD-obstetricians are closing birth canals up to 30% and KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck. Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines gruesomely wrenched. MD-obstetrician experts have been LYING to cover-up. See below. Hopefully the Los Angeles Police Department will immediately stop this bizarre MD-behavior and thereby help the tiniest people enter LA safely... All I can do is make a record - this post - like my last (see below) - will be archived in the Google usenet archive. Thanks, Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo Hillsboro, Oregon USA todd@chiromotion.com LAPD ONLINE WROTE: ----- Original Message ----- From: LAPDOnline To: Todd Gastaldo Cc: millerj@lapd.lacity.org Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Birth child abuse: The Bradley Method's 'Classic' Trap Thank you for writing to the Los Angeles Police Department, www.lapdonline.org. Your e-mail will be forwarded to Captain Miller, Van Nuys Community Police Station, 6240 Sylmar Avenue Van Nuys, CA 91401, 818-374-9500. Sincerely, LAPDOnline At 03:48 AM 12/27/2006, you wrote: BIRTH CHILD ABUSE: THE BRADLEY METHOD'S "CLASSIC" TRAP Bradley Method (Jay Hathaway/info@aahcc.com) is located in Sherman Oaks, California. Attention LAPD Officer JAMES MILLER, Van Nuys (Sherman Oaks) area commanding officer. This report of mass child abuse by MD-obstetricians - perhaps still promoted by Jay Hathaway - is being emailed via questions@lapdonline.org . Officer Miller, please see the arrogant boast of Steve B. Harris, MD, below... THE ABUSE (sometimes fatal)... American medicine's latest delivery position, semisitting, closes the birth canal up to 30% - just like dorsal lithotomy closes up to 30%. For clinical and radiographic references from last century, see Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth. 1992;19(4):230-1. The Bradley Method brought fathers into this obviously criminal act. According to the Bradley Method website (quoting the late Dr. Bradley): "It is husband's job...to help her into a semi-sitting position." http://www.bradleybirth.com/WIHCC.aspx Apparently, the birth-canal-closing semi-sitting position is still called "the Bradley Classic" in the Bradley Method Student Workbook... Bradley Method leaders Marjie and Jay Hathaway say: "If your teacher...does not include a Student Workbook...please contact The Academy at info@aahcc.com..." http://www.bradleybirth.com/ See Jay Hathaway's bizarre behavior YEARS ago, below. I wrote: An upside to MDs stomping homebirth (also: the Bradley Workbook) http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/432ce4d8f5a2788e Bradley Method childbirth educator Lisa Whitener (birth junkie) replied... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/400bcc10f1eee63e In her reply, Bradley Method child birth educator Lisa (birthjunkie) referred to the Bradley "Classic" (semisitting) as a HOSPITAL trap. It's both, unfortunately... It's obvious child abuse to close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30%. It's obvious child abuse to KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck... It is time for all Bradley Method instructors to speak out and get the birth-canal-closing "Bradley Classic" out of the Workbook - assuming it is still there (see Lisa's remarks below)... Bradley Method instructors who, like me, suspect it is child abuse for MDs to lie and close birth canals the "extra" up to 30% - should report and urge mandatory reporters (RNs and MDs) to report if they too suspect mass child abuse by MDs... (My further comments are interspersed ####) Lisa (birth junkie) asserted that there wasn't ANY upside to MDs stomping homebirth. I disagreed... > > NO SARCASM WAS INTENDED > > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > That said, I realize that this upside came in part as a result of a > > downside - a HUGE downside.. Lisa (birthjunkie) replied: > Yes, a HUGE downside. The scales are NOT balanced. There is a small > percentage of women that actually require obstetrical care. ##### I'm assuming that you are acknowledging that there is an upside to having obstetric surgical specialists around - regardless of why they are there. > Quite > small, actually. Our society has been brainwashed into thinking that > childbirth is rought with danger and emergencies. Not so. ##### Bradley Method apparently still makes a "classic" out of the birth-canal-closing semisitting position - I'm assuming Lisa that you are (below) acknowledging that the Bradley Student Workbook still pictures/promotes birth-canal-closing/"the Bradley Classic" delivery position. > I am not so naive to believe that childbirth is unpredicatable, though. > > And that a very small % of women and babies will require surgical > intervention. ##### Again, I'm assuming that you are acknowledging that for the specific mothers and babies who need them there is an upside to having obstetric surgical specialists around - regardless of why they are there. > But that fact doesn't condone the underhanded and greedy > fashion in which obstetricas has taken control of birth in America. ##### You are taking MY point - and throwing it back at me as if it was yours. > Nor do I don't condone the way women have allowed this to happen. ##### Your train of logic just took a dirt road. This is classic "blame the victim" talk. A struggle took place. The struggle is ongoing - it involves BOTH men and women fighting obstetrics. But the fact is, obstetrics has largely won the fight - with some men and women still fighting like hell - as other men and women - people like Jay Hathaway (and you, Lisa) in effect promote obvious obstetric crimes. >I > have an MBA. It's a classic example of Supply and Demand. Until women > wake up and smell the disservice, the wheels of change will be > remarkably slow. We have the power to change the system, but it will > continue to be lobbied against by those with a alterior motives and > vested financial interests. ##### When obvious obstetric crimes are being committed, the solution is NOT for Lisa to publicly wave her MBA and publicly pretend that law enforcement should not be called upon to stop obstetric crimes which sometimes kill. #### A better solution is - for example - to point the People (men and women) to the fact that "the People" (law enforcement) is bizarrely failing to protect the tiniest People. THE PROBLEM... >>>>BEGIN excerpt from: Warning to Yuma Hospital District One... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/8b0743717a886494 LAW ENFORCEMENT IS LOOKING THE OTHER WAY Arizona Atty Gen'l Terry Goddard's office seems to indicate that, in Arizona, COUNTY law enforcement must do the job - either that or state agencies like the AZ Medical Board must decide to act before the AZ Atty Gen'l can act... Here is the email I received from Arizona Atty Gen'l Terry Goddard's office... ----- Original Message ----- From: "CRD Community Outreach Calendar CRD Community Outreach Calendar" < CommunityServices@azag.gov> To: "Todd Gastaldo" <tgastaldo@earthlink.net > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Reporting obstetrics as 'gang-related crime' (mass child abuse) Dr. Gastaldo, Arizona is a unique state in some ways in that counties have precedence over most criminal issues. IE: "they do not work for nor report to the Attorney General". That said, there are several boards & commissions and then state agencies that we represent as clients if they decide on any enforcement actions or defend them in court as well. Who you need to contact is the Arizona State Medical Board. I will post their information below but it is probably your best way to get your issue addressed. The board actually has enforcement powers and rule setting ability state-wide or you can contact an Arizona state legislator to change Arizona law. http://www.azmdboard.org/ To file a complaint against a particular M.D: http://www.azmdboard.org/Forms/md_complaint.pdf To file a complaint online: http://www.azmdboard.org/complaints/Instructions.asp Here is a list of legislators if you decide on that route: Arizona State Senate: http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=S Arizona State House: http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H >>>>>END email to Dr. Gastaldo from Atty Genl Terry Goddard's office THERE IS NO NEED FOR NEW LAWS... OBVIOUS MEDICAL FRAUD/DECEPTION IS BEING COMMITTED... Babies are sometimes DYING as a consequence. RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS.... "[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage in fraud or deception." "[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are contrary to the best interests of the patient." "[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to patients, colleagues, and the public..." http://www.psych.org/psych_pra ct/ethics/ethics_opinions53101.cfm THE PROBLEM: LAW ENFORCEMENT RARELY PROSECUTES MD CRIME... In 1995, an MD - Dr. Einaugler - contended that he shouldn't have been criminally prosecuted because criminal prosecution of doctors is "unprecedented." [Nossiter A. A mistake, a rare prosecution, and a doctor is headed for jail. New York Times (Mar16)1995:front page] AMA general counsel Kirk Johnson (who later resigned in the AMA/Sunbeam fiasco) echoed Einaugler's sentiment, telling the Times that physicians have "never before" been subject to criminal prosecution in New York; and that criminal prosecution is "extraordinarily uncommon" anywhere in the nation. AMA executive vice-president James Todd, MD chimed in, assuring the Times that "Society has been poorly served by this decision" - doctors "traditionally" handle such matters through "peer review and malpractice," he said. Traditional "peer review" resulted in NO Medical Board penalty for Einaugler, because the Medical Board found that his "clear and obvious" failure to act - after subjecting his patient to an "enormous anatomical insult" - was not a "flagrant or dramatic departure from standards." As stated clearly in the Times article, Dr. Einaugler was not prosecuted for "making a mistake," but rather for covering up his mistake and calling the cover-up medical decision-making. This is JUST like MD-obstetrician experts lying to cover-up the birth-canal-closing... Again, for the Four OB Cover-up Lies (they are whoppers)... See Dents in babies' skulls" http://groups.google.com/group/ misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/08abfc7ff242150e Alternate URL: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3897 Steve B. Harris, MD arrogantly BOASTS about law enforcement looking the other way, as in, "Without enforcement, there is no law. Without law, there is no crime. These are elementary principles. Get an adult to explain them to you." http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/28866f3384801ae9 Adults should be standing up for babies - not boasting about other adults looking the other way as babies are abused en masse. I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students, MDs are TRAINED to perform obvious felonies. >>>>END excerpt from: Warning to Yuma Hospital District One... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/8b0743717a886494 #### I acknowledged that knowledge is power... > > Knowledge is indeed power. > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Women shouldn't HAVE to know to ask - law enforcement should take > > immediate action to stop the MD crime. #### Lisa (birthjunkie) initially agreed, as in, > AGREED. #### But then Lisa's train of logic again took a dirt road... > Women should not have to ask to do what comes naturally. > Unfortunately, that's the reality of the situation. The majority of > women choose to give birth in hospitals attended by obstetricians. #### The majority of women do NOT however choose to have their birth canals senselessly closed the "extra" up to 30%. > For > the overwhelming majority of women, it's a choice. ##### Nope. Obstetrics has largely won a battle. Obstetrics is falsely being presented as "science" - with Bradley Method helping with the routine birth-canal-closing - one of the greatest falsehoods of obstetrics.... > Unlike you, I don't > think the answer lies with law enforcement. ##### Obvious CRIME is being committed. MD-obstetricians are lying as babies are dying. Law enforcement is looking the other way - this is true - but this is only temporary. > WOMEN need to wake up and > educate themselves about their own bodies. Again, supply and demand. ##### Lisa's train of logic again takes a dirt road. Women have been ROBBED - "scientifically" - by powerful "scientific" CULTURAL AUTHORITIES. #### Women and babies are being literally assaulted - infant penises senselessly sliced amid screams of agony - and adult vaginas senselessly sliced ostensibly to open birth canals even as obstetricians lie and senselessly close birth canals the "extra" up to 30%. #### Bizarrely, Bradley Method has been helping with the birth-canal-closing. #### I wrote: > >Seaking of doing things by "the book," the American Academy of Husband > > Coached Childbirth/AAHCC's Bradley Method workbook used to picture the [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > intentionally - to help obviously criminal enterprises maintain > > ILLEGITIMATE power. #### Bradley Method instructor Lisa fails to explicitly answer the question. #### She writes: > Yes, I am a Bradley instructor--although that's not an updated listing. > You'll be happy to know that I have always promoted squatting for > birth. #### This was JAY HATHAWAY'S answer years ago - when I pointed out that his workbook promoted birth-canal-closing/semisitting as "the Bradley Classic." (!) > I absolutely has issues with the Bradley workbook and some of > it's teachings. #### JAY HATHAWAY told me this over dinner years ago - said he'd change his workbook - but (apparently) he never did! > I have no problem bringing attention to these things > (and I say that knowing that I could be "let go" as an official > instructor by sharing my disagreements publicly). #### Please do "bring attention" to the fact that Bradley Method guru Jay Hathaway indirectly perpetuates the MD-obstetrician practices of senselessly closing birth canals up to 30% and senselessly KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck. #### Please do "bring attention" the fact that Bradley Method guru Jay Hathaway LIED when he said he'd stop promoting birth-canal-closing/semisitting as "the Bradley Classic." #### Jay Hathaway's "official instructor" game must take a back seat (finally) to helping babies. > Bradley DOES, in fact, promote squatting (mentioned several times in > the Workbook and in the text) as the BEST position for birth (because > of opening of the outlet of the pelvis), ##### But squatting may NOT be the best position for birth - not in a culture where girls are robbed as children of their comfortable prolonged squatting ability. ##### There are plenty of other delivery positions which allow the pelvis to open maximally. > but [Bradley Method - TDG] understands that many > hospitals will automatically get mom into the "classic" position during > birth. ### Bradley Method is aiding and abetting MD-obstetricians in committing mass child abuse. ### NOTE: Naomi Pardue, knowing that semisitting closes the birth canal up to 30%, once wrote: "I'd had an epidural. I couldn't stand up, much less squat or kneel. But no, it wasn't that I wasn't 'in the mood for a change', or 'too inside my labor to be bothered.' As I said, I worked with the nurse to find a position that I could push in comfortably. Once I was in that position, I couldn't see any particular reason to change. (I was sitting up on the bed, with stirrups supporting my legs and giving me something to push against.)" http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/d06a817754138046 #### An estimated 4.6% of "healthy" term babies suffers unexplained brain bleeds - and Australian obstetrician Norman Beischer, MD once guessed that 10% of stillbirths were just fine right before delivery. There are "particular reasons" not to close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30%. > I think they're too "soft" in regards to this issue. #### I think YOU are too soft on this issue. Since when can MD-obstetricians legally close birth canals up to 30%? Since when can MD-obstetricians legally KEEP birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck? > Bradley > is well-known for getting women to advocate for their options and learn > to say "no" to routine interventions, so I've never understood why > they'd be so "easy" on the importance of positioning. ##### I've never understood this either. See my interaction with Jay Hathaway below. > I have yet to > see the newest version of the workbook, however, so I can't say whether > it's been amended. I could put out an email and find out. #### Jay Hathaway drove from Southern California to Northern California to learn the biomechanics from me on my living room floor YEARS ago - then took me and my wife out to dinner and promised to get the birth-canal-closing promotion out of his workbook YEARS ago... This was back around the time that I was telling Doris Haire ("Cultural Warping of Childbirth") that semisitting is NOT "the physiological position for childbirth" as she (perhaps still) avers... > When *I* teach the pushing phase of labor, I don't use the workbook at > all. In a nutshell, I say this: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > semi-reclined pushing will inhibit the baby from passing through the > pelvis AND can cause perenial trauma. So, get upright!!!!!" #### Why not say what the radiographic studies say: Semisitting and dorsal CLOSE the birth canal - up to 30%? Why not say that MD-obstetricians are senselessly KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck? #### Why not send an immediate email out to Jay Hathaway and all Bradley Method instructors and tell them that this simple, powerful message should be written in every student workbook that has "the Bradley Classic" pictured. > Now, I will tell you that many of my clients fall into the hospital > trap when it comes to pushing. #### But it's a BRADLEY trap! Bradley Method powerfully promotes the senseless birth-canal-closing that goes on in hospitals! > It's quite disconcerting as an > instructor of natural childbirth. You can lead a horse to water.... #### Please report the obvious, massive birth crime - and urge MDs and RNs (mandatory reporters) to report. #### Join me in calling for pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students they are TRAINED to perform obvious felonies. #### Get the birth-canal-closing "Bradley Classic" out of the workbook if it is still there. > I love Janet Balaskas' book "Active Birth". It's what every woman > should know. It's sooooooo darn logical, it hurts to think that the > majority of women will never experience it. > > Lisa #### The emotional pain you indicate you are feeling is, I am sure, nothing compared to what a baby feels. REMEMBER: With birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% - MD-obstetricians are actually ripping baby scalps from baby skulls with vacuums.. #### Compelling MD-obstetricians to allow birth canals to open maximally when babies get stuck isn't going to prevent all vacuum births - it's just that MD-obstetricians have no business keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck. #### Similarly, Jay Hathaway had no business keeping the birth-canal-closing "Bradley Classic" in the Student Workbook after I told him the simple birth-canal-closing biomechanics and he promised to get it out... #### I'm emailing Jay via info@aahcc.com. I hope others will email him as well. #### Jay Hathaway helped perpetuate mass child abuse by MDs. #### Jay Hathaway may STILL be perpetuating mass child abuse by MDs. #### Todd #### Dr. Gastaldo #### Hillsboro, Oregon #### USA #### todd@chiromotion.com This post will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive. 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