Home births: it’s time to broaden the focus of the debate

[Ree*Ree]

Fabulous, thanks for sharing

[Arcadia]

Total warm and fuzzy for me! Thanks for sharing! This paragraph especially:

The debate around home birth is about more than place of birth or associated perinatal mortality, it raises deeper and more complex issues: the right of women to have control over their bodies during childbirth, the rejection of the prevailing medical model and risk paradigm of pregnancy and childbirth, societies’ belief that they have an investment in the product of childbirth and therefore should determine what is considered safe, the culture of childbirth in a country and the position and status of women within a society.