When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that canβt be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesnβt happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.
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