ASTROLOGY
AND OBSTETRICS
(Investigator 23, 1992
March)
<>If astrology is
scientific, and the planets
that babies are born under effect their prospects in life, then it's
important
that babies' births be timed to best effect.
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<>However,
hospitals do not
consult astrologers
and then delay or induce birth accordingly.
An Investigator
reader
wanted a statement
on this paradox and the following letters resulted:
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Birkenhead 5015
1991 August 1
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Dept. of
Obstetrics
Queen Elizabeth
Hospital
Dear Sir/Madam,
I respectfully
request an answer to a question
that has serious implications.
Michel Gauquelin, a
French scientist now
deceased, is noted for discovering the alleged "Mars effect". He
correlated
the positions of the planets with the moment of birth of
famous/talented
people.
Obstetricians,
nowadays, can induce or delay
labour, safely by weeks. This is enough variation to change the
constellations
and planets a baby is born under and hence whether he’ll be rich or
poor,
famous or ignorant, talented or stupid, etc. Get the timing wrong and a
life is ruined!
In view of the
popularity of astrology it
may not be long before society's failures sue obstetricians for letting
them be born under an unlucky star and denying them the good life that
the planets of a week earlier would have bestowed.
All this places an
awesome responsibility
on persons in charge of maternity wards and I would like to know what's
being done about it at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Yours faithfully,
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A letter
received from the
QEH’s Obstetrics
& Gynaecology department dated 9th August 1991
said:
"As you are
aware,
doctors can bring on
babies weeks early, but do so only in extreme circumstances. We have no
ability to delay labour by weeks.
Perhaps you
could send me
the scientific
evidence showing that delaying, or delivering early, changes a person’s
future personality."
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Birkenhead 5015
1991 September 4
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0bstetrics &
Gynaecology
Queen Elizabeth
Hospital
Dear Dr. __________
Thankyou for your
reply (August 9) to my
letter of August 1st.
I had inquired
whether anything is being
done at Q E H to bring on the births of babies (prematurely if
necessary)
to coincide with astrologically favourable dates.
You asked for
"scientific evidence showing
that delaying, or delivering early, changes a person's future or
personality."
I refer you to ASTROLOGY:
THE EVIDENCE
OF SCIENCE (1988) by P Seymour – a scientist with a Ph.D. in
astrophysics.
Observe also that
astrology features in many
prominent magazines and newspapers. (Just last Saturday The
Advertiser
had a full page on astrology!) Surely, so many respected editors and
respected
astrologers would not all be lying to and swindling the public?
Not only is a
person's lot in life said to
be influenced by the configuration of the planets at his/her birth but
the current planetary positions also influence current events –
travels,
gardening results, surgery/operations in hospital, etc.
Therefore the time
may come when persons
"born under an unlucky star" or who receive surgery when the wrong
planets
are in the wrong constellations will sue the hospital.
Please inform me
whether anything is being
done about these problems at the Q E H.
Yours faithfully,
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Birkenhead 5015
1991 November 20
Dr
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0bstetrics &
Gynaecology
Queen Elizabeth
Hospital
Dear Dr.
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You have not yet
replied to my letter of
September 4th a copy of which is enclosed.
Further evidence for
astrology was published
in OMNI December 1989. The article was titled AN ASTRONOMER
DEFENDS
ASTROLOGY.
If the stars and
planets influence our general
course in life as well as daily events then it is important to time the
birth of babies as well as of surgical operations not by the urgency of
the case or by the availability of beds or surgeons but by the
calculations
of astrologers!
If the Q E H has an
Ethics Committee you
will surely want to bring this crucial point to their attention!
Please let me know
the result.
Yours faithfully,
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[When anything
crucial is at stake Astrology
is ignored. This is because Astrology is a pseudoscience – that is, it
is unscientific and therefore has no relevance in medical decisions.
More
evidence is given elsewhere on this website. Ed.]
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