abortion & midwifery
ANTI-MIDWIFERY = ANTI-ABORTION
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, doctors ran campaigns to socially stigmatise midwifery and make the ancient practice illegal in some places. This was largely done for economic reasons, but also to increase the status of the predominantly male medical profession. Midwives were seen as a threat to male physicians.
Midwifery is negatively linked with abortion even though midwives exercise abortion practices more generously and treat women’s bodies with more sympathy, provide more services at a much more reasonable price, while maintaining a relatively comparable infant death rate to doctors if not lower. Therefore, anti-midwifery campaign= anti-abortion.
