New BirthCenter in Buffalo-- Above Abortion Clinic!

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/medical/birthing-center-to-open-in-buffalo-in-the-fall-20130824

I really hate talking about abortion publicly because people (surprisingly mostly women) get crazy emotional and hysterical about it.  But this event is both really cool and fodder for angst.

I personally love this idea. The women who would use a birthcenter are most likely well educated on birth choices already.  Often, these are women who would have a home birth but due to distance or the smallness or construction status of their dwellings can't have it at home. Before this, the closest birth center was near Batavia about an hour drive from here.

The lowest rate of natural birth and highest rate of C-sections is in the lower classes. Doctors tend to withhold information from patients and poor patients are especially susceptible to being manipulated by doctors. Plus they may lack access to computers and other resources to research their choices.

Since these clinics tend to serve poor women without health insurance or medicaid only, this is a great place to have a birth clinic. Poor women who want to keep their pregnancy can get medical checkups, take classes on birth and babies, and the alternative choice is staring them right in the face in the same building.  Not to mention on average, according to the article, it is $8,000 cheaper to have a birth center birth instead of a hospital birth.

I met with Dr. Morrison when I was under Eileen Stewart's care.  I love Eileen. She's a total sweetheart. We felt very supported by her. She didn't bug me about gaining too much weight like a lot of doctors will do. She checked up on my nutrition, recommended healthy natural ways to deal with the sniffles I got during the winter while I was pregnant. She gave me the name of the chiropractor I still go to now.

There have been only a few serious complaints against this idea of having the center with the abortion clinic. One includes a question of women not being comfortable going to an abortion center to give birth. I don't believe that the type of women who would give birth with a midwife would be so closed minded that they would protest this. Anyone who is educated isn't going to confuse the two things.

There was one responder who basically tried to imply that you can't trust an OB/GYN who provides abortion to also birth live babies. I think they were trying to imply that she would kill the babies of parents who wanted them.  Besides the obvious malpractice suits that would follow, a doctor who has taken an oath to do no harm, won't do that.

Yes, there was a news story about a male doctor who would kill babies removed from the womb in the third trimester. The man must have been a jack-the-ripper type serial killer. He was breaking the law in that third trimester abortions are illegal and the babies were basically born alive. He killed them after taking them out.  No mentally stable doctor would ever pull shit like that.  He was a serial killer with anti-social personality issues.

Dr. Morrison has decades of experience birthing live babies as does Stewart. It would have been nice to have interviews with patients and mothers of these women to get a  real feel for how great they are. The article was definitely missing that. Can't wait till it opens and the first year of births can be counted and celebrated.