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...introduction of strict Islamic law. Funding for improvement projects has come slowly, allowing resentment to fester. Roads remain badly damaged, while some areas, such as the district of Aceh Jaya, still don't have hospitals. "If a woman needs a C-section she will probably die in childbirth while making the trip to Banda Aceh," says Lynette Johnson, an Australian aid worker. The provincial government says it is aware of people's grievances. "The donors have helped us build our economy," says vice governor Muhammad Nazar. "But we hope the Acehnese have not become too dependent on their projects...
...introduction of strict Islamic law. Funding for improvement projects has come slowly, allowing resentment to fester. Roads remain badly damaged, while some areas, such as the district of Aceh Jaya, still don't have hospitals. "If a woman needs a C-section she will probably die in childbirth while making the trip to Banda Aceh," says Lynette Johnson, an Australian NGO worker. The provincial government says it is aware of people's grievances. "The donors have helped us build our economy," says vice governor Muhammad Nazar. "But we hope the Acehnese have not become too dependent on their projects...
...Painful Decisions But regardless of the best efforts of physicians to reassure them, avoiding the pain of childbirth remains the wish of many women, if they can help and afford it. And sometimes circumstances - at least in developing countries - do not make it easy for doctors to have the patience that natural delivery often demands...
...general terms, the medical establishment comes in for a hard time from natural-childbirth advocates, many of whom wrap their arguments in the valence of feminism - speaking of doctors systematically reducing women's belief in their ability to give natural birth, with mothers lined up, strapped down and sliced open like so many units of easy revenue...
...case." That comment doesn't come from a jaded, overpaid male obstetrician, but from Manju Chhugani, a female lecturer at New Delhi's Jamia Hamdard faculty of nursing, the secretary of the local chapter of the Society of Midwives, and a healthcare professional who has organized seminars on natural childbirth...