Fw: Cytotec in the news - URGENT

[Guest guest]

Please, if you know any expecting mamas and/or mamas being threatened with

induction tell them to watch this segment. I hope I catch it.

 

I met Marsden Wagner this spring when he accompanied Ina May to a birth circle

in Takoma Park, Maryland. There is a snip of one of his lectures in a birth

video from Barbara Harper. He and Michel Odent have worked so hard to protect

women's health and promote birth advocacy around the world through WHO.

 

Read an earlier post of mine to visit the web pages on cytotec's murderous

history in birthcare. Is that a harsh adjective? No. I don't think so. OBs

know this drug is a loose cannon and refuse to stop using it. The greatest all

time answer I ever heard from an OB about the danger of induction using cytotec:

" It's not dangerous when I use it. "

 

Tell the mamas to ask their OBs and/or midwives (yes, there are some not so good

ones out there) if they intend to use cytotec to induce. Tell them not to back

off of their refusal of this drug. It also goes by the name of misoprostol and

is made by Searle. It has a close cousin Arthrotec 50 from Pharmacia.

 

Dale

 

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rmamidwives ; ChristianDoulas

Saturday, November 20, 2004 11:57 AM

{RMA} Re: <midwives-to-be> Cytotec in the news

 

 

 

In a message dated 11/20/2004 12:43:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,

PreciousPackages writes:

Grassroots Network Message 411043

CBS News on Cytotec induction

 

Dear Friends,

 

I just received this note from Marsden Wagner --- CBS News has

interviewed him about Cytotec induction to air sometime NEXT WEEK!

Marsden wrote:

 

CBS TV News has just interviewed me for a news spot they are doing on

Cytotec induction. It will be aired on CBS TV Evening News with Dan

Rather some evening this coming week. You will have to determine when it

is aired in your area. Unfortunately, they do not yet know which night

next week it will be shown. They have promised to let me know which

night but my earlier experience gives me no confidence they will do so.

If they let me know, I will let you know. Although the spot will be only

a couple of minutes, it is a nationwide program and every little bit

counts in getting the word out about Cytotec induction. Drug regulation

by public education is not an elegant solution but sometimes it becomes

urgently necessary. So let anyone who might be interested know about it.

Cordially, Marsden Wagner

 

 

Hoping this will help get the word out, not only about Cytotec but also

about unnecessary inductions..