How The Internet Spawned A Baby-Killing Cult

Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss free birthers.

FOOTNOTES:

1. About Yolande
2. Rise of the 'free birthers': These women are choosing to give birth without medical help — and at least one baby has died
3. Home birth advocate’s baby dies during free birth, prompts questions
4. An Infant’s Death Has Sparked A Heated Debate Around The "Free Birth" Movement
5. She Wanted a ‘Freebirth’ at Home. When the Baby Died, the Attacks Began
6. Why American infant mortality rates are so high
7. Home births 'as safe as hospital'
8. Woman: Doctor Told Me to “Shut Up and Push”
9. What Is "Birth Rape"?
10. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape.
11. The hallmark of women who choose freebirth: emotional immaturity
12. Home deliveries
13. Emilee Saldaya is as ethically responsible for baby Journey Moon’s death as if she had taken out a gun and shot her
14. Radical Birth Keeper Consultation
15. Rise in ‘freebirthing’ suggests women feel midwives and doctors are ignoring their needs
16. Why do some women choose to freebirth? A meta-thematic synthesis, part one
17. Free Birth Society Instagram

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