New York Midwives Lose Right to Deliver Babies at Home - BlackListed News
In 2008 the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists put out a statement effectively instructing its members to have nothing to do with the "trendy" fashion towards home births. Yet despite Acog's stance, and despite the fact that the US spends more money on pregnancy and childbirth-related hospital costs than any other type of hospital care ($86bn a year), the country has the unfortunate distinction of having one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the industrialised world. Its rate stands at 16.7 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with 7.6 in the Netherlands and 3.9 in Italy.
SPEND MORE & GET LESS
AND GET KILLED TOO
I CALL IT THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT
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