“EASY BIRTH”
ISSUE IN ELECTION FIGHT LONDON, Sept. 20. Easy birth for all mothers .is likely to become an issue at the British municipal elections in November. Candidates will be asked whether, if elected, they would help provide pain-killing facilities for all workingclass mothers at childbirth. This is part of a national campaign which the Married Women’s Association will launch in London next month. A deputation to the Minister for Health, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, will follow. The association' says that some members of the medical profession will have to be educated to understand the benefits of the easy-birth machine, which is an apparatus enabling mothers in childbirth to administer an anaesthetic to themselves in safe quantities. The association asserts that some nurses and midwives refuse to allow use of the machines. A Hull mother, who already has ten children, has written to the association as follows: “I had an awful time with every child I had. I am now going to have another. I asked nurses at the clinic if I could have an easybirth machine. Their answer was ‘No? ”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 October 1945, Page 2
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