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Putting Mothers and Babies at Risk: Promoting the Elusive “Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request”
Author(s) -
Jukelevics Nicette
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.2009.00332.x
Subject(s) - childbirth , citation , home birth , psychology , medicine , library science , pregnancy , computer science , genetics , biology
When the U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored a State-of-the-Science Conference, Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request (1), in March 2006 in the absence of scientific evidence to support its contention, it put women and their infants at serious health risk. By normalizing cesarean section without medical indication as a safe reproductive health choice to which United States women were entitled and were, in fact, already making, the medical professionals involved in organizing the conference were negligent in their duty to first do no harm.