Today I find that the AMA wants to ban home birth. Excuse me, but last I checked this was a free country, and we were able to make our own choices. Now, to be fair, the AMA themselves cannot make it illegal to have a home birth, but they can support legislation which makes the pool of available midwives which attend homebirths shrink significantly. Also, many organizations/legislators look to the AMA for guidance...so...if the AMA doesn't support home birth, then others won't as well.
Many people in the medical community are afraid that new movies/books (i.e. Ricki Lake's movie The Business of Being Born, and the book Pushed by Jennifer Block) are swaying people to want home births. Yet they don't say anything when celebrity after celebrity opts for a scheduled cesarean section...which is becoming very popular.
Here's a good article...Docs to Women: Pay No Attention to Ricki Lake's Home Birth
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- Sonia
- I am an engineer on hiatus as a stay-at-home-mom...and loving it! Our life is wonderfully crazy with our four little ones. We are so blessed!
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Well, think of all the other goverment controlled things regarding pregnancy, child health, education, and safety like immunizations, schooling, and car seats. They tell us what we can and can't do with all of those things, why not the delivery of children, too?
And at the same time, how ironic is it that a woman has the right to kill her baby before it's born, but if she chooses to have her baby, for it's safety, she better do it in a hospitsl! What's wrong with that picture, truly sad.
And what happens if a woman STILL delivers at home despite a new law that might be in place? Honestly, there is no way they could enforce a law like that. When a baby wants to come, it comes...it doesn't wait until you get the hospital. The good thing about Congress is that it takes FOREVER to pass anything....
next we will have to conceive in hospitals too (wonder if they'll have hidden cameras?) lol
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