Saturdays Protest against the Midwifery Ban!

For a second time, about 40 members and supporters of the Birth Action Coalition gathered in front of St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard to protest a recent ban on midwives at their sister campus, Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo. The Hospital continues to state patient safety as the reason for the ban, while community members, the affected midwives and some hospital staff continue to challenge the hospital to prove that it is risky for midwives to attend births in Camarillo, or state the true reason for the ban. The Birth Action Coalition plans to gather monthly at this location until the Hospital responds.
(Photos in this post taken by BAC supporter Lilly Meehan)