The following images were made by members of Joyous Birth to raise awareness about birth trauma. Please copy and paste them on your own blogs and forums, print and post in your local community. Sadly birth rape (and subsequent trauma) go so unrecognised in our broken maternity system that many women do not realise that the reason they are traumatised is because they are rape survivors!
Posters:
And remember these important slogans next time your out late at night with your spray can in hand (or next time your in a public toilet cubicle with a pen):
- Yes means yes, no means no, However we dress, wherever we go - And that means in hospitals too!
- Did your rapist wear a mask and gown? Mine did.
- Episiotomy is genital mutilation.
- Doctors, what do you do when a woman says no?
- Midwives, what do you do when a woman says no?
- I own my body and I give birth.
- Fingers, forceps, hands, ventouse, baby - which one belongs in a vagina?
- Birthrape on demand, a surgeon's right to choose.
- Birthrape - happening at a hospital near you.
- Birth trauma - coming to a woman near you.
- Vaginal exams without consent are rape.
- Consent is not consent when it’s obtained by lying or coercion.
- The “dead baby” card does not obtain consent. It coerces women.
- Have you heard of birthrape?
- Coerced surgery is human rights abuse. Women and babies deserve respect.
- Forced caesareans are the ultimate violation of women’s human right.
1 comments:
These are amazing, thanks for sharing them and spreading awareness. I like the idea of the permanent ink pen and the spraycan!!
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