#formed

Drugs and medical technology can be enormously beneficial when used to take care of real complications, but too often they are abused when applied to women birthing normally. These women are thus subjected to unnecessary risks. The key to this problem is informed consent, an ideal too seldom realized. Informed consent means that no woman during pregnancy or labor should ever be deceived into thinking that any drug or procedure (Demerol, Seconal, spinals, caudals, epidurals, paracervical block, etc.) is guaranteed safe. Not only are there no guaranteed safe drugs, but many of them have well-known, recognized side effects and potential side effects. Informed consent should mean that no woman would ever hear such falsehoods as, “This is harmless,” or, “I only give it in such a small dose that it can’t affect the baby,” or, “This is just a local and won’t reach the baby. ↗

— Susan McCutcheon

#epidural #informed-consent #natural-birth #nature

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ↗

— Aristotle

#formed #good #good habits #habits #make

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#autobiographical #course #directly #i #i think

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#been #brought #initiation #karmic #life

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clever #company #conversation #deal #good

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#band #basically #behind #done #i

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#beastly #deformed #doth #makes #man

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it. ↗

— Larry David

#i #know #much #people #really

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#celebrities #compelling #everyday #everyday life #harking

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. ↗

— William Blake

#formed #man #powers #sees #such