photo credit: Raphael Goetter
There is a great article up over at RH Reality Check called The Cost of Being Born At Home.
Current efforts to transform birth – offering women more options and preserving their decision-making – are not reaching low-income women. Birth activism draws attention to the ubiquitous media portrayal of highly interventionist births, [...]
The AMA is trying to help develop legislation to outlaw homebirths. They’re afraid that if they give the simple, little women choices they might not choose them. Gods forbid women have actual choices about what to do or not do with their own bodies, that would just be too much. Better they just sit back [...]
ABC did a “news” piece on unassisted birth, or DIY birth as they called it. I say “news” because it’s full of nice scare tactics, sprinkled with some misinformation, and just enough doctors afraid of losing their fat paychecks to condemn the whole thing.
I’m not even going to try to discuss their story, mostly because [...]
