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The Most Common Childbirth Practice in America Is Unnecessary and Dangerous

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Re: The Most Common Childbirth Practice in America Is Unnecessary and Dangerous

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Birth interventions in general tend to skew toward unnecessary and dangerous.

Unnecessary interventions due to overly zealous electronic monitoring of "normal numbers", perverse financial incentives to turn rooms over quickly, and callous prioritization of personal time (by some not all) doctors make American hospital birth pretty terrifying to me.