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&lt;p&gt;65% of marriages end in divorce. We suffer from the brocken bond at birth and have great difficulty trusting and creating and maintaining relationships.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have become branded rather than bonded. We spend a ton to fill the holes in our hearts from unrequited parental love which was obfuscated and (without sainthood) next to impossible to foster because of separation at birth; and later abandoned to daycare for our most important three years of our lives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This distortion of nature and dysfunction fuels our two biggest profit centres of the globe: War as no.1 and Pharmaceuticals as no.2&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 2% born at home with care, love, support and unbridled attention...have no deficit....no axe to grind....and won’t be found in a uniform, carrying a gun...in the waiting room of a doctors’ office....dentists’ office...therapists’ office, tutors office, detox centre, shopping mall, lawyers’ office or penitentiary.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Healthy, happy people just aren’t good for the economy. No how! No way!....so there are no lobbyists for holistic health and mother nature’s elixir of life: the milk of human kindness from mother’s medicine chest...the path to peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=213456" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Drug Companies are Top Health Care Lobbyists</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/04/17/drug-companies-part-sixteen.aspx#213455</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:39:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:213455</guid><dc:creator>NaturalNurture</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;We need to get better funding for Mother Nature...she can&amp;#39;t afford lobbyists....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why else would we send people on the path to the pharmacy at birth....our Medical Model of Birth (98% are born in a hospital) is the first toppling domino in our health.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because the AMA a ACOG are big cogs in the wheels of industry....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stealing control from mothers and families and undermining women by disempowering them with the disaster capitalism of HOSPITAL BIRTH is just more SHOCK DOCTERINE or DOCTORING and a major money maker ....a perpetual pension plan for professionals in the field of medicine, surgical supply and of couse the number two profit centre of the globe: Patented Medicine. Any one able to charge for their services to pick up the pieces from our industrialized birthing process is going to be rich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone wanting to birth at home with an intelligent midwife is up against a too strong lobby....if ACOG had its way it would bring back dunk tanks for witches...their doctors of spin paint a pretty poor picture of the midwife...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We need more midwives, sentience, sapientce and sensibility...and legislation to honour them and allow them to ply their skills and legacy of knowledge.... to bring back holistic intelligent birth without drama, suffering and iatrogenic and noscomial devastation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When the sharpest thing in a hospital is a scalpel....everything looks like a c-section. (33%). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bring back well educated doctors not pharma puppets. Ones who know how to turn a baby rather than buck. Give trained midwives hospital priviledges, so doctors and can learn how to create health rather than treat illness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE facts: 98% of birth in NA is in a hospital&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;90% of babies and mothers meet for their vitally important window of opportunity the primal hour of birth...DRUGGED and in a stupor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;33% of babies are cut from their mothers womb. The first thing they see after a tranquil 9 months is the razor tip of a scalpel and then little else as their eyes are flooded with mother’s blood.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;65% &lt;/p&gt;
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