'Babies are going to die,' says one of last doctors delivering babies in rural southwest Alabama

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13. You're right... women will suffer.

And eventually, women will take care of women, even if they only have a certification of midwife. They're forcing us back to the middle ages and before, when barbers were doctors (if I remember correctly). Midwives took care of birthing babies and helping an expectant mother through pregnancy. I figure that's where we're headed. No use going to a hospital unless the emergency is something that has precious little to do with reproductive care. Yes... knock on effects. Women depending on other women for their needs, outside the medical community, means that women will take care of their own families outside the medical community whenever possible... especially as costs are increasing. Eventually, the knock-ons even effect male doctors and the entire medical community. Of course, I'm not sure someone hasn't already gamed this out and is leading it that way. Just one more aspect of modern life and freedom to be stripped from us.

We've got a long way to go before we get to this point, but already because of costs, I do more to help my husband with herbs, etc. that I learned decades ago from a Curandera who was my college Anthropology professor. She used to say she was from Columbia... where the GOOD heroin comes from! (LOL... this was a LONG time ago).