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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not really about Evelyn, it's about reproductive rights, including where a woman has a right to give birth.

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Yes, and I am absolutely horrified at those charges, because they show that medical professionals are willing to attack home birth merely because women are choosing something different than what they recommend - especially when what THEY recommend is often not even evidence-based.  I honestly don't see where Evelyn did anything WRONG; in each of those cases things were going poorly and she appropriately transferred to the hospital, and in most cases mom and baby turned out fine.  Again, the doctor decides he doesn't like the protocols of the midwife, gets pissed when she (rightly) transfers to a hospital, complains and then he gets to make her stop practicing, strip her of her license, and take her livelihood away.  You could take each and every one of these situations that were stated, and explain why it is still a reasonable option for a woman to choose homebirth.  [i]Medical professionals should not have the right to dictate where we give birth, even if we are obese, or might have a large baby, or have a prior c/s, or have a breech baby[/i].  This is absolutely a political fight.  Doctors/hospitals HATE homebirth and think they should have the right to dictate to all of us how we give birth.  They completely remove the individual woman from the equation, when in fact we are the ones that should be able to make these choices for ourselves.

Women and babies die in our hospitals every day in this country giving birth, yet there are no reports flaunting the errors (or just bad luck) of the physicians attending those births.  Why in God's name should THEY have the right to flaunt the errors (or just bad luck) of midwife attended homebirths?[/quote]

The babies in this case paid the price for their mother's fanaticism. [/quote]

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