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[quote=Anonymous]Women--of all races--are just not empowered in this country to make our own medical decisions about pregnancy and birth. And it shows in our absolutely dreadful maternal mortality and morbidity statistics. Interestingly, the book All Natural has an excellent chapter on childbirth in which the author compared the data from the Family Health & Birth Center in NE DC and found that practice had significantly better maternal outcomes than the city's and country's overall dismal outcomes, despite serving a mostly low-income, non-white population. His hypothesis is because the midwives' approach is more woman-centered/high-touch/low-intervention. [/quote]
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