The public policy and women's studies program, in association with the WSTU Graduate Student Association, has put together a panel series discussing contemporary policy problems involving or affecting women. On April 2, the panel will target international policy and related women's issues, and will include speakers Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Mercedes Kremenetzky from the Organization of American States.
The Organization of American States (OAS) promotes collaboration among member nations within the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values and to define and defend common interests by debating major issues of concern to the region and the global community as a whole. The OAS lists its key concerns as strengthening democracy, promoting human rights, and confronting poverty, terrorism, illegal drugs, and corruption. Made up of 35 member states, the organization seeks to defend mandates established by the body and carry them out at the Summits of the Americas.
Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Mercedes Kremenetzky will speak about their experience at OAS and will discuss particularly how the issues they confront in their work affect women. The April 2 event will take place at 7:15 p.m in Room 211, 1957 E Street.
Log onto http://www.oas.org/ for more information about the organization, and http://www.summit-americas.org/ for information concerning the Summits of the Americas.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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On a slightly different topic, I thought you would be interested in the following LTE in the WP:
Less Pregnancy Intervention Is Better
Thursday, March 13, 2008; Page A16
I offer a much better way to fund Virginia's birth-injury program ["Free Care for Life, if Money Holds Out" March 6]. Let's address escalating malpractice insurance premiums by asking Virginia's obstetricians to pay a fee for every unnecessary medical intervention recommended to healthy, low-risk women. These interventions cause complications that could be avoided without them.
I recently gave birth as a 40-year-old at 42 weeks gestation. With any local obstetrician, I would have been offered an amniocentesis because of my advanced age, induced labor at a week past due, an epidural and possibly a cesarean section.
My midwife, who respects birth's natural process, offered no interventions. My pregnancy concluded with a beautiful, healthy birth.
If doctors were financially responsible for the unneeded interventions they push, we could minimize the cause of malpractice lawsuits. If doctors continued to act irresponsibly by offering these interventions to healthy women, the required fees would pay for Virginia to keep its promise.
ANNIE HAROLD
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203594.html
That's a very interesting take. The book Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf offers a similar and well-researched analysis of birth in America.
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