“While there may be some overlap in the services provided, … it is a stretch to claim that traditional hospitals providing only hospital-based birthing environments offer services similar to an [alternative birth center].” – Judge J. Phillip Shepherd
What the general public and the media don’t understand, when they are asking doctors about midwives, is that doctors are the reason American women don’t have midwives.
So much trauma could be prevented by simply listening to and respecting the women giving birth.
I’m not willing to be an economic victim any longer. I’m in it for the long haul, and I want you to be, too.
The legal authority in childbirth lies with the woman giving birth, not the providers of care. Our words should reflect that.
