In an unmistakably insecure and aggressive move, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a resolution at its annual meeting last weekend to introduce legislation outlawing home birth - according to The Big Push for Midwives.
What the AMA's resolution and these other kinds of potential and actual legislation do is to open the door to penalizing motherhood, in effect. Because most of these legislative attempts do not directly address the issue, they leave the door dangerously open to criminalizing women for making the decisions they feel are best for themselves, their babies and their families.
Read the rest Here: Bad Medicine: AMA Seeks To Outlaw Home Births | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
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Here is the entire AMA position paper and resolution in document form, scroll down the page resolution 205.
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