CameronDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
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.
Hawke@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I dunno if I quite agree.
There’s a happy middle ground where hospital births are the rare occurrence and not the routine default.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 4 days ago
if your goal is to increase birth related deaths.
Hawke@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Nah.
It’s great to have hospital as a fallback for emergencies but there’s problems with hospitals themselves too.
CameronDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
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.