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You don’t have to be a homebirth advocate to see that homebirth is a feminist issue | blue milk

Because here’s the thing about homebirth, like abortion the real issue is not whether you would choose homebirth yourself, or not. The issue is that some women will choose a homebirth and that homebirth has always been around and always will be, for lots of reasons, and given all that, how do we want to legislate for the reality of women’s lives?  And do we not feel the tiniest bit suspicious of motivations to criminalise women’s lives?