What are your views on how childbirth is handled in this country?

As someone who was always familiar with medicine and the history of public health in this country, I knew when I was pregnant each time that I had to take matters into my own hands and create a birth plan that would be followed by the doctors and such instead of becoming a statistic of induction, c-section, bye…I took childbirth classes both times and learned so much about the relationship between natural medicine and a medical world that has to ‘do something’ to the woman when that’s not necessary…I believe new mothers have no idea why certain things will happen to them but to hospitals they’re just numbers…too often all the interventions aren’t necessary, a lot the hospitals do are for liability issues and not for the mother…more people should have access to midwives and the such…

http://www.healthcareshopper.com/blog/2009/05/childbirth_medicine_-_going_in.html