As a separate comment to Stretcher Bearer

Quote: Burying this amongst emotive rhetoric will have a negative effect. I appreciate the opportunity for home births having attended a few. I am also well aware of when things sadly go wrong and in a very big way. It is very easy for the happy partnership to disintegrate when clients look for an outcome legally.

I hope a successful outcome is reached for those who seek homebirths. End Quote:

Thank you for your well wishes and I for one am afraid that you are right about this argument disintergrating in emotion but for the reasons of the "Us against them" argument. There is no reason to look at why a woman wants a homebirth and the argument of "why they want a homebirth" is not pertinent to the womans right to choose argument. Let's not get bogged down in "what is a better birth". A better birth is the one that the woman birthing the child is most comfortable with.. Whatever her reasons.