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RE: Freebirthing, great idea or just too dangerous? - 11/9/2009 4:14:49 PM
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Consecrated2God
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It's pretty much established at this point that just home birth isn't any riskier nor any safer overall. On that point, there's no issue.
The only issue is that folks want to argue that home birth without medical assistance is OK - in the absence of any data that says it's not adding risk. If it adds an unacceptably high risk, then yes it should be legislated.
Just seems to me that we should be consistent and regulate activities that inflict similar amounts of risk on third parties in similar fashions. Also seems to me that before one gives people carte blanche to accept a risk on someone else's behalf, we should have a pretty good idea of what that risk really is.
Like you said, there's no data that says it's not adding risk, but there's no data that says it is adding risk, either. This is something that would need to be proven that it's risky before legislating, and that the risk is as high as other risky behavior that is legislated against. If, for example, the risk of UC was lower than the risk of epidurals, then it would be ridiculous to legislate against UC and not epidurals. If it were more on the level of drunk driving, then absolutely it should be outlawed. But I'm not in favor of legislating in the absence of any data demonstrating the risk factor of any behaviour.
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RE: Freebirthing, great idea or just too dangerous? - 11/9/2009 4:22:29 PM
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Exactly the point I was trying to get across. You said it well.
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RE: Freebirthing, great idea or just too dangerous? - 11/9/2009 4:26:48 PM
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Consecrated2God
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Cool, then we agree. 
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RE: Freebirthing, great idea or just too dangerous? - 11/9/2009 9:58:40 PM
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This is something that would need to be proven that it's risky before legislating, and that the risk is as high as other risky behavior that is legislated against.
I agre with this.
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