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The Connection Between American and Third World Maternity Care

Reader diary posted by adesifeminist

April 13, 2009 - 4:39pm

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Anyone whose work focuses on getting enough medical care to third world women should do it with the knowledge of the experiences of American women. Otherwise their stance becomes pro-cesarean and not pro-evidence-based-medicine. It indicates the ignorance of thinking American healthcare is the best healthcare, and promotes the least cost-effective and most inefficient model of maternity care in developing countries


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Can We Please Stop Blaming Women for C-Sections?

By Jennifer Block, RH Reality Check

January 21, 2009 - 3:27pm

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Women are not "electing" to put their babies at risk by choosing c-section. Women being backed into a corner and told what's best, then publicly shamed for "asking for it."

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