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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Male obstetricians have kept women down (literally!) for far too long. When she wants to get up and walk down the hall, who are you to say she can't? When she needs her mother or girlfriend there, who are you to say she can't? When she wants to hold her baby, who are you to say "not yet"?

You doctors seem to believe her baby's birth is all about you. It ain't. You got it backwards. You take orders from her. She's in charge of her own body. Not you.
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It's absolutely true that a woman is in charge of her own body.

If you enter into a partnership with a professional who explicitly assumes responsibility for medical outcomes, then it becomes more of a negotiated relationship, and things are more complicated. Relationships are always more complicated.

I think viewing the woman as "taking orders" from the doctor is incorrect, but so is viewing the doctor as "taking orders" from the woman. I mean, if the woman "orders" the doctor to do something medically irresponsible, it's the doctor's duty not to do it. That's why they have a license and are led tot he responsibility of it, not just held to the wishes of patients.[/quote]

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