MN looking to discourage induction pre 39 weeks

Re: MN looking to discourage induction pre 39 weeks

• ~adamwife~ member

  November 2010

  I'm all about discouraging inductions through education, but I am not cool at all with teh government making requirements about the birthing process.  It's a slippery slope.  As someone planning a homebirth I fear the day that the government takes away my right to give birth at home.  IMO it's none of the government's business.

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• ToledoDeux member

  November 2010

  ~adamwife~:

  I'm all about discouraging inductions through education, but I am not cool at all with teh government making requirements about the birthing process.  It's a slippery slope.  As someone planning a homebirth I fear the day that the government takes away my right to give birth at home.  IMO it's none of the government's business.

  Public health is absolutely the government's business, especially when 38% of births in the state are paid for by Medicaid.  Early inductions can often mean a NICU stay, which is then paid for by guess who?

  Besides, did you read the article?  The govt is not banning early inductions (and certainly not in medical cases); just requiring hospitals to make their own plans to reduce elective ones.  This is a good thing. 

  You can educate people all you want, but the truth is that people tend to listen to their OB, and the OBs are often the ones encouraging/suggesting the unnecessary induction.  Education doesn't seem to be stopping OBs from performing unnecessary inductions and c-sections: the only way to reach them is through mandated policy, so now the burden is on the hospitals to come up with one.
  

  I think this is excellent news and makes me happy to live in MN.
  

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• ~adamwife~ member

  November 2010

  ToledoDeux:

  ~adamwife~:

  I'm all about discouraging inductions through education, but I am not cool at all with teh government making requirements about the birthing process.  It's a slippery slope.  As someone planning a homebirth I fear the day that the government takes away my right to give birth at home.  IMO it's none of the government's business.

  Public health is absolutely the government's business, especially when 38% of births in the state are paid for by Medicaid.  Early inductions can often mean a NICU stay, which is then paid for by guess who?

  So where do we stop?  Epidurals can lead to an increase in c/s, which can mean NICU stays due to respiratory problems, which is paid for by who?  Refusing constant monitoring or an IV or certain prenatal testing also poses some risk, which could lead to problems that would cost the taxpayer money.  So are we going to start requiring all women to give birth in the one way that the government deems is the safest and least costly?

  I dislike early inductions as much as the next person, but I also dislike a lot of other medical decisions that OBs make.  I would rather see insurance companies stop paying for early inductions and elective c-sections.  That would deter a lot of people from having them.  My insurance company refuses to pay for my homebirth and that is their right.  But the government has absolutely no right to tell a citizen or a private business how they should be handling the birthing process. 

  I love how so many people are "my body, my choice" when it comes to murdering innocent life, but think it's OK to tell women how they should give birth.  Those abortions cost taxpayers money too you know. 

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• flowerchild77 member

  November 2010

  ~adamwife~:

  ToledoDeux:

  ~adamwife~:

  I'm all about discouraging inductions through education, but I am not cool at all with teh government making requirements about the birthing process.  It's a slippery slope.  As someone planning a homebirth I fear the day that the government takes away my right to give birth at home.  IMO it's none of the government's business.

  Public health is absolutely the government's business, especially when 38% of births in the state are paid for by Medicaid.  Early inductions can often mean a NICU stay, which is then paid for by guess who?

  So where do we stop?  Epidurals can lead to an increase in c/s, which can mean NICU stays due to respiratory problems, which is paid for by who?  Refusing constant monitoring or an IV or certain prenatal testing also poses some risk, which could lead to problems that would cost the taxpayer money.  So are we going to start requiring all women to give birth in the one way that the government deems is the safest and least costly?

  I dislike early inductions as much as the next person, but I also dislike a lot of other medical decisions that OBs make.  I would rather see insurance companies stop paying for early inductions and elective c-sections.  That would deter a lot of people from having them.  My insurance company refuses to pay for my homebirth and that is their right.  But the government has absolutely no right to tell a citizen or a private business how they should be handling the birthing process. 

  I love how so many people are "my body, my choice" when it comes to murdering innocent life, but think it's OK to tell women how they should give birth.  Those abortions cost taxpayers money too you know. 

  Well said.

  

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