Ricki Lake Defends Women's Right to Choose Homebirth

Ricki Lake Defends Women's Right to Choose Homebirth

The Business of Being Born (BOBB) is causing a stir in the medical community. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is so concerned about Ricki's message that they plan to introduce a resolution to the American Medical Association (AMA) to create legislation in support of hospital births, suggesting that they are the only safe place for a woman to give birth.

As the BOBB team explains in a recent press release, Medical News Today recently reported that "about 8.2% of infants born in the US in 2005 had low birth weights, the highest percentage since 1968." American infant mortality rates continue to be high enough to put us in 30th place in the world. Twenty-two percent of pregnancies are induced, and in only four years, the maternal mortality rate has risen above 10 per 100,000. "To us," say the BOBB team, "these seem like the troubling trends, not homebirth."

It appears that the BOBB Team has become a threat to the multibillion-dollar birth business, so much so that medical associations are willing to disregard women's voices and compromise their rights to choose where they give birth.