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|Articles|December 1, 2012

Home births: safety must trump "rights"

In a commentary presented at the European Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Paris in June 2012, researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany urged obstetric providers to discourage promoting home births as safe alternatives to births in hospitals.

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