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I don't think most people are saying that women who chose hospital births are less. It is that those who want natural births have to fight for that right.

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There is a reason mortality rates are lower, but it is not because of doctors and science in the way you state. Historically, the highest mortality rates were due to doctors perfoming vaginal exams from patient to patient and from cadaver to patient without washing his hands and thus spreading childbed fever.

And historically, homebirths attended by trained midwives has always had a lower mortality rate than hospital births attended by a physicians. So I could argue that doctors are dangerous!

Please, don't show your ingnorance- check the facts and do the research before you make claims you can't back up.

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