The trouble is, they have no evidence to back up their safety claims. In fact, the largest and most rigorous study of home birth internationally to date found that among 5,000 healthy, "low-risk" women, babies were born just as safely at home under a midwife's care as in the hospital. And not only that, the study, like many before it, found that the women actually fared better at home, with far fewer interventions like labor induction, cesarean section, and episiotomy (taking scissors to the vagina, a practice that according to the research should be obsolete but is still performed on one-third of women who give birth vaginally).
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It's a pretty easy guess why doctors don't want home births: they don't do house calls. And they can't get paid for a birth they don't attend. Home birth hits them right in the pocket book. Ouch! If they're going to push for new legislation I think I may push back: guess I'd better put calls to my legislators on my agenda.
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