I cried. Another generation gets what women giving birth with a midwife is about. I am a Certified Nurse Midwife and it was overwhelming to see how much these women understand what midwives do. It is an intimacy, an honor and privilege to experience and assist a woman giving birth. To convey to nonparticipants the feelings surrounding the experience is difficult.

I am now retired for several years and am a published writer. I have written an oral history title, Vaginal Politics, about the struggles of a midwife in the early 1980 against a medical system determined to put her out of business. It is presently being adapted as a screenplay. I have to see the documentary.

The newspaper in Las Cruces NM (second largest city in New Mexico) had a color photo of weeping man being embraced by local preacher mourning the death of Jerry Falwell.

Living in this environment, it is refreshing to find, someplace, the truth about what the man was about.

When I heard of his death, I could not help but think about what kind of reception he encountered upon crossing over.

At the time the pill hit the market, I already had three children and eagerly chose to use it. Yes, I took it when the dose was much higher than medicine finally determined was needed.

I did not want the burden of more children. My husband worked and supported the family, but he did not do any parenting, period.

That was almost fifty years ago and medicine has never seen fit to seriously find birth control that men would use.

And here we are with the opportunity to wipe out a serious virus that affects practically every human who engages in sex [that's is just about everyone] and medicine is reluctant to include treatment of boys.

I am a retired medical person and today my friends are shocked to hear me say that cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease. I don't want to take the time to research the statistics, but genital warts in the male can be a devastating event and can mean hospitalization for surgery with no guarantees that they won't grow back.

That alone is enough to warrant vaccination or at least some trials.

And again as in pregnancy women are assuming the burden of prevention. Sisters until women control the medical schools and the NIH, we will never truly be in control of our bodies.

One thing not talked about is the profile of the members of the convention. The Washington Post says the members of KOS are 99% middle-aged white males (at least the members of the convention in 2007). So to extrapolate that progressives have mixed feelings about Hillary or anything else on the minds of progressives is skewed.

As a female progressive blogger I don't even talk about the candidates yet. I am too concerned with trying to educate the people in my little world that what our community needs is to move into the 21st Century.

A response longer than the article with many assumptions about the situation, blows my mind. More importantly, I took the time to read it. Shame on me.

Fella get your own blog. You write well and spelled all the words correctly.

Having been raised in the south among southern Democrats, I know individuals from all of those categories. And you know what has happened to them? They are now Republicans.

And this is relevant because?

The newspaper style of reporting is tell the newsworthy part and then put in the summary of recent or old history at the end. Well, all the meat and real story about Palin is on the second page. How many people take the time to read the long summary of what Palin has done and go to the second page to read what the author really thinks.

I agree with you, Rebecca, but think you consciously or unconsciously hid your point. Now, come on, you are a Republican, right?