Never ceases to amaze me that accusation of wanting a HB for 'selfish' reasons! Why else do women have epidurals (in the cases where it's not medically necessary) and pain relief? For themselves - it's not a decision made with the concerns about effects on the newborn taken into consideration, is it?
Was it Pesce in that Senate hearing who said the 'downside' to HB is that women can't access pain relief drugs? If it wasn't him (could have been a Labor MP)it was someone else that week who said it and I laughed so much at the arrogance of that statement! We're 'selfish' then, because we value this way of our children coming into the world and being at our own hormonal optimum to receive that child. Why would a woman choose to ignore the pain relief drugs that men so thoughtfully invented and used to enforce upon birthing women in hospitals? Geez, we must be so shortsighted!
Oh, well, these issues can't ever be covered in a short piece on commercial TV. I'm just glad they had Anna's story with the good outcome, instead of fishing for a bad Australian outcome.