Petition

The petition below will be presented to the Hungarian embassy in London during a protest rally to be held soon. Date will be announced here.

We the undersigned express our profound concern about the arrest and continuing detention of Agnes Gereb. The criminalisation of midwives who practice outside hospitals is unacceptable in a modern society that respects human rights and the rule of law. We call on you to make our concerns known to the Hungarian authorities. We ask you to use your best efforts to secure her release and an end to the prosecution of Hungarian midwives.

felicity topping

Duncan Clark

Tom Flannery

Elizabeth Prochaska

Clare Rainsford

Krisztina Miller

Michelle Turner

wendy a walker

Emma Taylor

Helena Glackin

zack breslin

Gavin Radcliffe

Eric Walker
I do not know of another country in Europe which acts in this inhumane manner. Please use your best efforts in this matter. Thank you very much.

vanessa brooks

Inez Schmidt-Rademacher
We had our first baby at home. With our experienced midwife (midwives) and the support team we felt safe all the time and are gratefull for our peacefull and interventionfree birth.

Kristýna Bušková
When I read about Agnes, I had to think of the feminist movement and female medical doctors. I am so grateful we have all the civil rights and rights to education. However, what I do not understand is why most of us just became part of the male professional world without ensuring that all women have such a basic right as to choose how to give birth. Couldn’t female medical doctors do more for women in this respect? Why aren’t there more women like Agnes in medicine? Does someone know what the stance of Hungarian female obstetricians is on this issue?

Barbara Grandi

ivana arena

Karolina Wieczorek

Aleksandra Schabek

Olga Poleszak

Lucia Bagnoli
Nobody should be persecuted for granting women's choice!

Jarosław Jopek
freedom&solidarity

monika murawska

LUIZA ADAMI

Jolanta Manska

Jen Burnett
Birth is a human rights issue and can not be owned by anyone except the mother.

Laura Harris

Phoebe Topping

Olivia Georgiadis

Holly Lyne
The treatment of Dr Gereb and her colleagues is unacceptable. I emplore the Hungarian authorities to rectify this immediately.

Michelle

Emily Maw

[Name hidden]

Amina Buhler-Allen
Free Agie! It is every woman's (mother's) choice not a government's choice.

Monika Piekarek

Anna Otffinowska

Elisabeth Geisel
it has been too long!

Tatiana Demishkevich

Barbara Scriver
Unthinkable that the persecution of midwives who practice outside of a hospital continues to this day. Who does this this serve?

Lauren Redman

Dana Flynn

caroline ward
We will not stop campaigning until we see the release and vindication of Agnes Gereb and the legalisation of the attendence of Independant Midwives at home births in Hungary. The Hungarian government, as an EU Country, is breeching the constitutional rights of Agnes and all Hungarian women wishing to give birth outside a hospital. This corruption WILL be exposed, whether or not Agnes is released. The Hungarian Government can no longer afford to hush this matter up. We will not be silenced.

susan ward

Alison J Widdup

Oumou Mariney

Brian Hedrick
Please reconsider your destructive actions towards women's choice.

Michael Tassone
My children were delivered by midwives. Please honor all mothers and all women. Release Agnes Gereb.

elvira flaherty
My blessings and prayers go out to agnes. your freedom will ring soon!

Stacey Kerr MD
Agnes Gereb provides high quality maternity care. Women need MORE of these providers, and low-risk normal births are safe at home IF there is a qualified midwife or physician in attendance. Putting Agnes in jail is a travesty and archaic, mesogynist behavior.

Judith Lee
This is unacceptable in every way. EU members should be trounced out for this type of blatant ignoring of their basic human rights. As supporters of legalized midwifery who had two home births with the high quality assistance of midwives, our family asks for the immediate release of Agnes Gereb and improved conditions for all Hungarian midwives.

Dana Gaskin Wenig

RAFAL PYSTER
free agnes gereb

Crystal Buhler

Eva Gaskin

Crystal kotnik

[Name hidden]

Colin Wisniewski

András Juhász
I was born in Hungary and cannot believe it is still stuck in the dark ages! Shameful..

Lisa Costello-Mullen

[Name hidden]

Natalya Jackson
Home births are only dangerous when midwives are not allowed to attend and provide support. Birth has been occurring far longer than hospitals have existed. I personally gave birth at home because I was well educated about the benefits of home birth and the dangers of over-intervention in hospitals.

[Name hidden]
How can bringing babies into this world, in an environment where the mother feels comfortable, be a crime? Free this lady NOW!

Catherine Woods

Suzanne Doyle

[Name hidden]

[Name hidden]

[Name hidden]

Erika Szente
I used to be proud of my Hungarian Heritage. Not anymore. This is barbaric. Worse than in the Rakosi era. Shame on a government, that allows this to happen! Hungary has no place in the EU. Maybe in the dark, 3rd World place...

Kim Trainor
Agnes Gereb is a help to women, not a criminal.

Martin Perdoux
Please free Agnes Gereb at once, and acknowledge the data, as the rest of the world has, that support the value of home births in reducing medical complications to the baby and the mother.

[Name hidden]

Mildred Tassone
Stop the prosecution of Hungarian midwives.

Rev. Regina-Sophia Siegel
Please FREE Agnes immediately. Many Blessings and Merry Christmas to you.

Jennifer Gadoua, RN, SNM

Mary Jane Capps
Support Women's Rights. Free Agnes!

Melissa Van Dam
The care of pregnant women should not be overruled by money and power mongering.

Cyndy Winters
As a mother of five, and a registered nurse I support a family's choice to birth their babies in the safe healthy environment of their choosing. There are many studies available to support the logical conclusion of a family that their own home is a safer healthier environment that a hospital full of sick patients and nosocomial infections.

kristen roberts

Sonia Hancock

Tomas Heikkala
A woman's choice about her birthing circumstances is hers and not the states

lisa forasacco

Elsabe Burger

ML Jolly, midwife
Free Agnes!

Sonia Pressman Fuentes
I wholeheartedly support the immediate release of Dr. Agnes Gereb. I am one of the founders of the American second wave of the women's movement.

charlene terry
I cannot believe that any government feels justified in intruding into a woman's life so completely as to tell her where to give birth. This is a personal family matter.

Melissa Wedge

[Name hidden]

Susan Paulding

Louise Noah Skellings

Caroline yoxall
Free this woman, for pity sake

Leonie Lange

Christina Birdsong
Please read world statistics that show homebirth is safer than hospital birth.

Virginia Boger-Haney

ciaran doherty

Ann Fonfa
Women's rights, women's bodies. Leave us alone, governments!

Cynthia Funk

[Name hidden]

Vicki Chan
What kind of a world do we live in where a woman who serves the people well is persecuted while polluters, swindlers, rapists and murderers go free?

Ros and Jon Mackenzie
Every woman should have the right to home birth supported by a qualified midwife. We had all three of our children at home and consider this to have been the best place for the start of a new life. Midwives in all countries should be supported by health authorities to be present at home births. It is shameful for Hungary that Agnes Gereb is in prison for supporting families in giving their child the best start in life - being at home.

pamela jessee L.M.

[Name hidden]

shelley dodt
Stop prosecution and persecution of Hungarian midwives.

[Name hidden]

Karah Edwards

Steven Aiello
This is truly astonishing. How can a European country get away with something like this?!

Guntermann Nicola

Linda Rawlings

Karen Todd

[Name hidden]

Sara Canade

Butz Evi
I hope this midwife will be as soon as possible free again! What a shame to put this wounderful woman in prison

Clair J. Sullivan
Proud mother through safe home birth!