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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The strand of midwifery that fetishizes "natural" childbirth is unscientific, anti-feminist quackery.[/quote]

And I beg to differ. I think those theat medicalize childbirth, procedurize it, and make women feel like they are incompetent to handle it, are anti feminists.

Making women feel powerless in doing something that women have done for millennia, and continue to do, without intervention is the problem. Hey, you want interventions... that’s your choice, but you should not be forced into them, either. [/quote]

medical care is anti-feminist?  [/quote]

No, convincing women they cannot do it without medical care is anti feminist. Many women are terrified of the prospect of birth, and that does us a disservice.

But I can already see from the responses, it’s medicalized birth all the way with this group. [/quote]

?? How is it anti-feminist to say, "You are about to give birth - let's make sure we have all the resources necessary to make sure that we can get you and your child out of this alive, if necessary"?  You're living in some kind of fantasy world where good thoughts about birth somehow reverses the biological reality that birth is the most dangerous day of an infant's life, and can kill and injure the mother as well.  Do you also think seatbelts and carseats are needless scaremongering?  [/quote]

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