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International Association of Parents & Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth was founded in 1975 by David and Lee Stewart. They were inspired to found the organization after being unable to find help for their own home birth, and after over a decade of work in Missouri advocating for alternatives to hospital based births. At its peak the organization had 8,000 members and was focused on lobbying for alternatives to hospital births including midwifery, home births, and natural births.
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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.
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Purchased from Eclectibles in 2022.
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Created JB 2023.
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