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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The incredibly high morbidity and mortality rates you're referencing had more to do with how medicine was practiced during the industrial age while more and more women started birthing at hospitals instead of at home and MWs were delegitimized. [b]There is not a lot of data on birthing before the industrial age but what is available shows that mortality rates were not incredibly high. [/b] MWs did routinely and successfully deliver babies in cases that would automatically warrant a c/s today. Saying that women can not birth without medical intervention is one strategy for removing women's agency -- if it's a medical condition then obviously a doctor should be in charge and decide how everything should be done (in ways convenient to them). It's how we ended up with the horrors of twilight birthing ~80yrs ago. It's also how even today women are dictated to on how they are allowed to labor and birth. [/quote] Citation?[/quote]
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