LA Times article on Health Reform: Now what?

Kudos to The LA Times for pointing out in a piece last Sunday (Childbirth: Can the U.S. Improve?)what every birth activist and pregnant mother who felt she had a raw deal by the medical community knows: childbirth has got to change.

Please, mothers, if you're not going to listen to me or to your local birth activist then listen to Dr. Elliot Main, chief of obstetrics for Sutter Health, a Northern California hospital chain who was quoted in the WSJ piece saying:

"Cesarean birth ends up being a profit center in hospitals, so there's not a lot of incentive to reduce them."

Let me repeat that:

"Cesarean birth ends up being a profit center in hospitals, so there's not a lot of incentive to reduce them."

Yes, women, your bodies are not being respected and it's time to rise up and say something about it!

When is the US government going to finally address this billion dollar industry that abuses women's bodies? Just look at the economics: an incredible amount of money would be saved if low risk women were attended to by midwives. Why is the US so behind on this? Yep, you guessed it. Because money can be made off of women's pregnant bodies.

Please, everyone, wake up! Be BOLD! Get involved with healthcare reform. Obama is saying it's a priority, everyone's talking about it. Now they need to show women the money. Not the money that's being wasted on healthcare, the money that needs to be invested in saving women from abusive human rights violations all in the name of the almighty dollar.

Okay, done.

Visit:

1. The Big Push for Midwives click here
2. Childbirth Connections Millbank Report referred to in the WSJ piece.