Excessive medical intervention in childbirth
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While a small proportion of women require dramatic surgical intervention to deliver a baby, most mothers require none of the expensive overprecautions used as normal maternity care. The movement of midwives and home birthing training have created a healthy alternative to the terrifying experience of hospitalization, overmedication and regimentation that surround the birthing process in most developed countries.
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A desire by women for less medical intervention in childbirth could well mean a return to the widespread loss of lives during, before and after childbirth which was common as recently as 50 years ago. As a prominent obstetrician remarked, "If (women) don't wish to go by what we will do, they will make their own decision and that will be on their own heads".
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(E) Emanations of other problems