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- Immaculate Deception II -
Myth, Magic, & Birth. Suzanne Arms. pg 159:
"Physicians tend to frame the argument as a question of
whether a parent has the right to jeopardize the well-being of his
or her baby by seeking a birth outside a hospital, but that is a
completely inaccurate reading of the situation. It is the question
of whether, in a society that supposedly protects the rights of
minorities, healthy people who believe that a hospital is not the
safest or most wholesome place to give birth have the right to
make an alternative choice. As it now stands, in most countries
where midwives and physicians are susceptible to prosecution,
individuals still have the right to a home birth; what they are
being denied is access to a skilled attendant. And that endangers
their health."
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