Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

Challenge to Florida VBAC Ban Intensifies

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by Anna Clark, RH Reality Check

April 13, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

A coalition is challenging a VABC ban by Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, charging among other things that it is intervening in the activities of licensed providers and overriding “informed consent” standards.

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Do Pregnant Women Have the Right to Refuse Surgery?

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by Rebecca A. Spence

March 16, 2010 - 9:22am (Print)

Last week, a firestorm erupted in the birth and reproductive justice advocacy world over a statement generated by the NIH Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Consensus Development panel implying that in some circumstances a pregnant woman cannot refuse cesarean surgery.

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