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The Turquoise Revolution
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by Diana Paul | December 1, 2013
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today, Issue 108, Winter 2013.
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The Turquoise rEVOLution (also known as the Birth Revolution) was launched in March this year (2013) following the Human Rights in Childbirth Summit at the Midwifery Today conference. If you were there, you probably sang the song, wore the color and danced among hundreds of helium-filled turquoise balloons. It was profound as we prayed for our persecuted sisters. It was also momentous as we banded together to declare our rights as women to choose where and with whom we give birth. Since 2005, I have been following the CIA World Factbook’s statistics on infant mortality. At that time, the US ranked 43rd in the world behind Cuba and other developing countries. In first place was Singapore as the safest place in the world for a baby to be born. Looking at the cost of health care in both Singapore and the US revealed that the US spent 20 times the amount per capita on health care as Singapore, yet Singapore was ranked 1 and the US 43. (There were no CIA stats for maternal mortality in 2005.) My neighbor suggested we make a t-shirt with thi
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