... against the practice are supporting activist groups with funding, training, and technical expertise rather than choosing direct involvement. The following approaches are typical: -Community education; in which volunteer nurses and midwives, trained local health workers to teach individuals about the harmful effects of female circumcision and to work through religious organizations, women's organizations and social clubs to mobilize communities against the ... ...

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... country. In 1994 Ghana passed a law, which explicitly prohibits FGM. Other countries must follow their initiative, some already have. Yet, enforcing these laws proves to be difficult. Doctors', nurses' and midwives' professional associations must take a clear stance against FGM and pass regulations forbidding their members to perform the procedure. The doctors must then refuse to practice FGM in their communities, as ... ...

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... . Abortion became an outrage in this country only after the Civil War. It was then that the American Medical Association, seeking to bolster the authority of physicians over that of midwives, pushed for anti-abortion legislation to limit outside consultation (Garrett 18). Up to this point, abortion had been legal up until "quickening", or the first signs of movement in the ... ...

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... Europe it was generally accepted in the early months of pregnancy prior to quickening. However, in the 19th century opinion about abortion changed, when medical community realized the growing of midwives who did not carry a medical degree, and campaigned to illegalize such practices. In 1869 the Roman Catholic Church prohibited abortion under any circumstances. In England and in the United States ... ...

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... emergencies were spawning all over the country. These doctors were seeing that women were creating their own medical emergencies by attempting to end their own pregnancy. A group of doctors and midwives were drawn together in St. Louis, Missouri because of their experiences with these dying women. Some of the emergencies they witnessed were abdominal and uterine abscesses, corroded tissue lining cervix ... ...

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