Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1980 edition of NASCAP News. This issue contains information on the 1980 NAPSAC conference on "Getting the Childbirth Options you Want...in Less Than Nine Months." Other articles include: Just How Dangerous are Obstetricians? by David Stewart; Mayors and Governors Endorse 1980 NAPSAC Conferences; California Midwives Organize to Implement Legislation; Landmark Cesarean Study Published by U.S. Government; ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Offers Family Physicians Larger Share of OB Practices; Should Healthy Breasts be Amputated as a Preventative Means Against Possible Future Cancer?; Obstetricians & Nurses Publish Strategy for Beating Down Good Midwifery Legislation; Results of OB?GYN Docs Getting Worse; Infact and the Nestle Boycott; Canadian Physician Charged with Homicide in Home Stillbirth [this case is notable as it was the first time in Canadian law that an unborn baby had been accorded the rights of a human being]; Attack on ACHI (Association for Childbirth at Home, International) to go to Illinois Supreme Court; A Letter from Lee, President of NASCAP; How to Obtain Tapes of the 1980 NASCAP Conference; NAACOG (Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Seeks to Set Standards for Childbirth Education; Home Birth Physician Cleared in Court yet Faces Battle with Licensing Board; Public Demand Causes NJ Doctors to Back Down in Opposing Midwives; California Midwife Charged with Felony. There are also letters from members and supporters to NASCAP, information on the cancellation of the 1981 conference, advertisements for books, magazines, courses, films and birthing and baby supplies, as well as a classified section and a calendar of events in the Childbirth Reform Movement across the United States.

4 issues of the NAPSAC newsletter spanning 1980-1981.

Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1981 edition of NASCAP News. Article include: The Conspiracy of Doctors Against Doctors; An Opportunity to do Something Significant for the Cause of Better Birth; Congressional Hearing Held on Restraint of Trade Against CNMs (College of Nurse-Midwives); NAPSCA Directors Practice NAPSAC Ideals; Special Ward for a Special Doctor; ACOG (American College of Nurse Midwives) Letter Criticizes Gore Hearing; Once a Caesarean Always a Subsequent Labour; New Midwifery School now Open; Courts Take Custody of Unborn Child; British Columbia Association of Midwives Formed; Can People Remember Their own Birth>; Do Hospitals Feel Threatened by Home Birth?; Current Reviews of Midwifery Laws. There are also advertisements for books, courses, films, birthing and baby care products such as birthing stools and baby carriers as well as a classified section and a calendar of events in the Childbirth Reform Movement across the United States.

Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1980 edition of NASCAP News. Articles include: The Five Standards for Safe Childbearing; California Midwife Charged Twice for Same Offense; Florida Lay Midwifery Bill Narrowly Defeated; NJ Doctors Seek to Dominate Midwives; Testimony Before New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners Public Hearing; Alaskan home Birth Physician Acquitted in Homicide Trial; Letter to NJ Board Medical Examiners; Notes from the FDA; Once a Section, Always a Section an Anachronistic Concept; Warning: Episiotomy can be Lethal; Fetal Monitors Spread Infections; Do Doctors Object to Home Birth out of Concern for Safety? Or is it Money?; Two Bushels of Socks, an Interview with Henrietta. There are also advertisements for books, courses, directories, films, birthing and baby care products such as breast feeding dolls, as well as letters to the magazine, a classified section and a calendar of events in the Childbirth Reform Movement across the United States.

Vol. 5, No. 4 winter 1980 edition of NAPSAC News. Articles include: Midwife Exonerated of Murder Charge; $1,300 to Suture a Tear a Mother's Personal Account, by Julie Minkel; Out-of-Hospital Birth Centres Studied by N.J. Dept. of Health; The National Health Federation; The Caesarean Epidemic a Powerful New Article by Gena Corea; Harassment of Nurse-Midwives in Nashville Prompts Congressional Investigation; Ohio Medical Board Attempts to Seize More Power; The Caesarean Birth Alliance; Child Abuse by Prescription, by David Stewart; Homelike Birth Centres Found Safer than Maternity Wards in Same Hospital; Gerber Food Steps up Advertising to Shorten Baby's Time at Breast, by David Stewart; While SC Docs Adopt Stand Against Home Birth, SC Bureau of MCH Adopts Guidelines for Lay Midwives; NIH Task Force Recommendations Could Help Stem Rising Caesarean Rate, by Ann Clark Gray; The Parents' Column, by Lee Stewart; the Obstetrician Glut; Pediatricians Join Obstetricians in Harassing Home Birth Parents and Midwives. There are also advertisements for books, courses, directories, films, birthing and baby care products such as birthing stools and baby carriers as well as a classified section and a calendar of events in the Childbirth Reform Movement across the United States.