File 2 - Fall 1980 Vol. 5, No. 3.

Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1980 edition of NASCAP News. This issue contains information on the 1980 NAPSAC conference on "Getting the Childbirth Options you Want...in Less Than Nine Months." Other articles include: Just How Dangerous are Obstetricians? by David Stewart; Mayors and Governors Endorse 1980 NAPSAC Conferences; California Midwives Organize to Implement Legislation; Landmark Cesarean Study Published by U.S. Government; ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Offers Family Physicians Larger Share of OB Practices; Should Healthy Breasts be Amputated as a Preventative Means Against Possible Future Cancer?; Obstetricians & Nurses Publish Strategy for Beating Down Good Midwifery Legislation; Results of OB?GYN Docs Getting Worse; Infact and the Nestle Boycott; Canadian Physician Charged with Homicide in Home Stillbirth [this case is notable as it was the first time in Canadian law that an unborn baby had been accorded the rights of a human being]; Attack on ACHI (Association for Childbirth at Home, International) to go to Illinois Supreme Court; A Letter from Lee, President of NASCAP; How to Obtain Tapes of the 1980 NASCAP Conference; NAACOG (Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Seeks to Set Standards for Childbirth Education; Home Birth Physician Cleared in Court yet Faces Battle with Licensing Board; Public Demand Causes NJ Doctors to Back Down in Opposing Midwives; California Midwife Charged with Felony. There are also letters from members and supporters to NASCAP, information on the cancellation of the 1981 conference, advertisements for books, magazines, courses, films and birthing and baby supplies, as well as a classified section and a calendar of events in the Childbirth Reform Movement across the United States.