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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fetal monitoring saved my kid’s life, so I’m fine with it.[/quote]

Yeah, that's what it's for.  This is the problem with people's anecdotal reactions to stuff like the OP, in my opinion.  The regulations that get in the way of an ideal childbirth experience (wandering around in a dimly lit room with your selected birth posse and your playlist/meditations on repeat while doctors stay out of the way and the ghost of Ina May encourages your healthy baby out on a wave of feminist empowerment) are there to prevent a worst-case outcome.   For people who benefit they can see the rationale plainly.  The people who weren't close to a bad outcome can only see that they were prevented from experiencing their ideal outcome.
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Doctors don't care about ideal they care about alive.  As they should.[/b]
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In no other area of medicine is this true. If I go in for knee replacement and have a leg amputated absolutely no one will say “yeah but your other healthy femur is all that matters”. Avoiding the worst case is literally the bare minimum expectation of medicine. It’s amazing how little you want patients to settle for when they’re only women.[/quote]

Completely ridiculous analogy.  And ignores that there are two patients in a delivery ward. And acts like avoiding death is a simple, easily achievable "bare minimum" when in fact childbirth was the leading cause of death for women for a lot of human history, so avoiding death in childbirth is a pretty big deal!  But I'm sorry your leg was amputated during your C-section; you can actually sue over that.[/quote]

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