Maternity care failings debated
The Royal College of Midwives says the care of women is at risk
MPs are to debate growing concerns over failings in NHS maternity services.
It comes ahead of a BBC Panorama programme which shows the pressure hospitals are under and claims wards are buckling under a midwife shortage.
In the programme, a reporter, posing as a volunteer, discovers a woman in labour being left in a corridor because there are no beds.
The government says maternity services are safer than ever and that it is up to trusts to decide on staffing levels.
BBC correspondent Sophie Hutchinson said the programme, which uses hidden cameras, paints “an extremely dismal picture” of NHS maternity services.
We spoke to women across the UK who reported problems similar to those that we saw undercover
And some families are shown giving harrowing accounts of how they believe poor care has led to their baby’s disability or even death.
Undercover reporter Hayley Cutts said: “We spoke to women across the UK who reported problems similar to those that we saw undercover so there’s no reason to believe that they just apply to the two hospitals that we went into.
….The programme will do little to dampen the concerns of opposition MPs who argue that a shortage of midwives has sparked a crisis.
But the government insists the UK remains one of the safest countries in the world in which to have a baby and that increased investment will see the number of midwives rise.
….Wayne Coyne’s baby daughter Caitlin died after she was starved of oxygen during an emergency Caesarean in hospital three years ago.
Understaffed and overstretched, that is the lot of midwives in some maternity units, a BBC Panorama investigation has discovered.
This Nationalized/Socialized system is the very thing Hillary Clinton wants to impose on American Women.
Jenny Hatch
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A More Perfect Union: BYU Television airs patriotic documentary
Click on this famous painting by the artist Christy depicting the images of Liberty, Peace, and Justice watching over the signing of the Constitution to get to the original document that our founders signed.
Click here to get to an amazing compilation of other important historical documents.
A More Perfect Union
Clip from the movie
It is no coincidence that a group of brilliant men came together at the right place and time to form an unprecedented government. This historical drama shows the events and philosophies that influenced the Founding Fathers as they united in a political battle to forge the Constitution of the fledgling United States.
This documentary is one of the best I have ever watched on the making of the Constitution.
Paul and I plan to watch A More Perfect Union with our children on July 4th.
If you would like to watch it on BYU Television, here are the times. If you don’t have cable connectivity, you can watch it live on the internet with a variety of streaming technologies.
Sunday, July 1, at 12pm
Wednesday, July 4, at 3pm
Thursday, July 5, at 7 & 10pm
Saturday, July 7, at 12am
For live streaming: Click Here
For me one of the fun parts of watching the documentary is seeing various BYU Theatre Profs playing certain rolls in this excellent film.
“This program is the first comprehensive recreation of the stirring, heating debates that lead to the creation of a new government in 1787. Filmed on location at Independence Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation and those underlying principles that guard our freedoms today.”
“America, 1786. A handful of brilliant men including George Washington, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin, lead a political battle to create a new form of government, one that will establish the standard of self-government to all the world.
This is the comprehensive recreation of those stirring, heated debates during the summer of 1787. Filmed on location at Independence Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation and the underlying principles that guard our freedom today. This award-winning production was officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.”
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Deseret News: Mitt’s LDS roots run deep
“NANTES, France — Elder Romney didn’t even have time to put on his shoes.
The 19-year-old missionary was in his apartment when a woman burst in to say some Frenchmen were beating up one of his fellow Mormons down the street.
The barefoot Mitt Romney, who had been in France for just six months, joined his roommates in rushing into the snowy night.
They found a team of rugby players, drowning their sorrows after a lost match, hassling two female missionaries. The women had cried out “Allez-y!” which means “go on,” rather than “Allez-vous en,” meaning “go away.” The male missionary who leapt to their defense had been punched out. Romney ended up with a badly bruised jaw.
“There were about 20 guys, very large and very muscular, and we were a group of very young and very small American guys,” Romney would recall 40 years later. “If you get into a fight with Muhammad Ali, you don’t return the punch, you just put your arms up.”
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But his family’s history, like that of his church, is an ever-present part of his life: In the first-floor hallway of his home the portraits of five generations of Romneys hang in an unbroken line: Miles Archibald, Miles Park, Gaskell, George and Mitt.”
Jenny Hatch
FYI Mormon missionaries are still getting beat up, My nephew Michael had his nose broken and his shoulder dislocated last year by a couple of drunks in the Ukraine.
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Michael Yon: Bless the Beasts and Children
“Captain Clayton Combs has been fighting hard in Diyala for about ten months, much of it side-by-side with Iraqi soldiers from the 5th Division. Each time I’ve come into contact with the 5th, they seem far better than most. American officers and sergeants who work with the 5th have good things to report about them, saying that although the 5th still has far to go, and cannot sustain itself logistically, it can fight.
Captain Combs said this particular Iraqi unit, the 3-25, has never run away from combat, and never refused to close on the enemy. Combs said, “I’ve fought with 3-25 for 10 months in Diyala and they have always come when I am in trouble. They always go on patrols when I ask. They never back down.”
I asked Captain Combs to repeat what he said, making sure he knew I was planning to quote him directly. A veteran like Combs would be unlikely to append his name to such words if he weren’t dead serious. Captain Combs repeated his words and stuck by them. He then demonstrated that faith when we took off deeper into the danger zone with nine soldiers from 5th IA: just Captain Combs, Iraqi soldiers and me. As we passed through the village, Captain Combs pointed out the nice houses, saying the people had been simple farmers with comfortable homes and lives.
Until al Qaeda came.
I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging.
Go look at the pictures, they are grim, but I believe important for everyone to see. Some of Michael Moore’s “freedom fighter’s” did this.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Mark Steyn: Immigration
Mark Steyn
QUOTE:
“On the eve of Independence Day, the people of this great republic declared their independence from the United States Senate under the stirring battle-cry, “No legislation without explanation!” The geniuses who’d cooked up the “comprehensive” immigration bill’s “grand bargain” behind the scenes in the pork-filled rooms had originally planned to ram it through in 48 hours before Memorial Day. And, right to the end, the bipartisan Emirs-for-life of Incumbistan gave the strong impression they regarded it as an affront to be required by the impertinent whippersnappers of the citizenry to address the actual content of the legislation.
Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., dismissed critics of the bill as “racist.”
Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, complained that the peasants had somehow got hold of his phone number, and he felt “intimidated.”
Sen. Trenthorn Lotthorn, R-Lottissippi, said: Who cares if they call? They could call 1-800-BLOWHARD (and leave off the “D” for “Deal’s already done”) 24 hours a day, and he still wasn’t going to listen to them. “To think that you’re going to intimidate a senator,” he scoffed, “into voting one way or the other by gorging your phones with phone calls – most of whom don’t even know where Gulfport is.” (Gulfport is a port in the Gulf emirate whose grateful people Sultan Trent has ruled o’er lo these many years.)
More artfully, the Democrats’ leader, Harry Reid, instead of insulting his old base, invented a new one. Among the torrent of calls from racist intimidatory talk-radio listeners who don’t know where Gulfport is, Sen. Reid had somehow managed to get through to the one constituent worth staying on the line for, a man who supports the bill. Who is he? Well, according to the Senator Majority Leader, his name is, er, “Tommy.”
Tommy Hilfiger? Tommy Lasorda? Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with vocal refrain by Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers? Tommy Lee in the director’s cut, where in the hitherto deleted scene right at the end he says to Pamela Anderson, “Sorry, honey, I’d love to carry on for another 20 minutes but I gotta call Sen. Reid in Washington. If you hardworking Canadians are going to do the jobs Americans won’t do, I need to get your X-visa sorted out”?
Ah, but Sen. Reid explained that he couldn’t identify the Tommy in question in case he was arrested and deported. This Tommy has to stay “living in the shadows,” like Tommy Lee in the bit where he’s partly obscured by Pamela’s embonpoint. Alas, this heartwarming vignette left many cynics unmoved.
On the radio, Laura Ingraham suggested that “Tommy” might be entirely fictional and merely Harry Reid’s imaginary friend. I proposed to Laura that “Tommy” might like to start dating John Edwards’ “coatless girl,” whose Dickensian tale of woe figures in every Edwards stump speech: Apparently she goes to sleep shivering every night because her daddy was laid off at the mill and she can’t afford a winter coat. If Tommy and the coatless girl married, he could buy her a coat for $9.99 at Wal-Mart, and she could fill in a routine Spousal Application form with U.S. Immigration, which only takes 10 years to process, as opposed to the cumbersome and time-consuming 24-hour instant amnesty visa for seasonal fruit-pickers and seasonal jihadists contained in the Senate bill.”
Steyn is right every time!
Jenny Hatch
