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Originally Posted by Sticky
Please note that the article above is decribing events in Canada.
In Canada using a hospital for birth is free.
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In the United States, if a woman shows up in labor to a public hospital, and is unable to pay, Medicaid covers the costs. But the woman has to have broken water for the hospital to admit her under Medicaid's rules.
One of the things that has bothered me about some of Jenny's arguments were the associations with drug use during labor and drug use later in life.
The fact is, drug use is a much more complicated issue than all of that. Genetics and socio-economic status play key roles in determining whether or not someone will be a drug user. The addictive personality is known to be a heritable trait. A lot of the psychological issues Jenny attributed to medical births have been shown to be heritable traits. How we are born has little to do with how we'll turn out to be. It's honestly more important to make it safe for the baby and pleasant for the mother than to make it "less traumatizing."