Birth Action Coalition Our Bodies, Our Babies, Our Births

Stuart J. Fischbein, MD FACOG, Medical Advisor of the Birth Action Coalition recently wrote to ACOG to express his disappointment in their decision to ask the AMA to lobby Congress to make homebirth illegal. You can read his letter and the resonse from Ralph Hale (published with his permission).

Ralph Hale, MD FACOG, and Executive Vice President of ACOG responded, but evaded many of Stuart’s questions. His response suggests that the decisions being made by ACOG and the AMA are motivated by politics, rather than by what is best for patients or physicians.