ah I was hoping you would be from NSW!!!
Good luck on your homebirth!!
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Have you read about this?
Today is a SAD SAD day for Australian women
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 4:31pm
Today Nicola Roxon introduced two Bills to Parliament.
1) Health legislation amendment (midwife and nurse practitioner) Bill
2009
This Bill is about accessing Medicare and PBS, there is nothing currently
written in this Bill that discuses eligibility - there is no comment within
it at present that states anything about homebirth. However, in her speech
she openly stated that there will be no MBS for Homebirth.
2) (and this is the clincher) Midwife Professional Indemnity
(commonwealth contribution scheme) Bill 2009
This Bill excludes midwives from providing intrapartum homebirth care.
THIS IS A SAD SAD DAY FOR THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA!
Here is the press release from Homebirth Australia
Deaths will increase with new announcements
Homebirth Australia today slammed the exclusion of homebirth from insurance
schemes for midwives announced by the Health Minister Nicola Roxon in
parliament today.
"Effectively two pieces of legislation will outlaw midwives providing
homebirth care from July 2010" said Justine Caines, mother of seven and
secretary of Homebirth Australia.
"Women will continue to homebirth, but will now do so without the assistance
of a qualified professional." said Ms Caines. "The result will be an
increase in deaths for mothers and babies, this is certain. It is
absolutely impossible to understand the government's position on this, other
than to say that they have bowed to political pressure from medical lobby
groups."
The National Maternity Service Review received submissions from hundreds of
women wanting access to homebirth services. The vast majority of homebirth
services are provided by private practice midwives. Removing this option is
likely to end access for most women to homebirth.
Ms Caines called on all ALP members to declare their view on a woman's right
to self determination of her health care needs. "If the ALP is so hell bent
on preventing women from accessing homebirth as an option I ask all ALP
members to publically state their position on this. It appears that having
a Health Minister who is a woman, a recent mother, and a lawyer
understanding consumers' rights, is not proving to be an advantage for
women. Removing women's rights to the point where we are back providing
care in dark alleys or in back rooms is ridiculous in 2009."
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