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Yeah, no shit. Its basically antivax nonsense applied to birth.
Giving birth in a hospital has its fair share of horrors, but child birth used to have a really high mortality rate (and still does in parts of the world). Anyone who wants to go back to that is ignoring history.
I dunno if I quite agree.
There’s a happy middle ground where hospital births are the rare occurrence and not the routine default.
if your goal is to increase birth related deaths.
Nah.
It’s great to have hospital as a fallback for emergencies but there’s problems with hospitals themselves too.
The answer is to fix the hospital issues, not to play Russian roulette with mothers lives. "Fallback" is no good if the mother is bleeding out, or the baby is not breathing, and the hospital is 10 minutes away. Every second counts.