Problems are for Solving

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“How can people believe they are free when something as intimate as childbirth is so heavily controlled by the corporate state?” Gregory asks. “Of course, we need freedom for families to make their choice among hospitals and home birth options. For a case for home birth, and against the establishment that embraces a program of processing women in labor as fast as it can through the systematic reliance on the pitocin-epidural-cesarean process, see the great documentary, The Business of Being Born.

“The artificial process of bringing on contractions, then giving pain relief, then bringing on more contractions, then resorting to cesareans when things don’t go as smoothly and quickly as desired, reminds me of the spiral of interventionism Mises described,” Gregory adds.

Another example of the nanny state and corporate welfare. Don’t let people do anything they want to if you can find another, more expensive, more highly regulated way.

My friends who have had home births (as have we) should know that the laws are in part guided by medical professionals who lobby for stricter regulations in order to protect their market share.