“The same kind of argument (that the activism for normal and physiologic birth is dangerous) is used against every social movement, like ecology, anti-racism, muslims, refugees etc. Why not attack the birth movement as well? The strategy is to use focal problems and to generalize, creating the idea that protecting gays, pregnant women, refugees, children and workers, in fact, hides a “terrible problem”, since activists are “fanatics” and “irresponsible human beings”.
Indeed, that’s what we should always expect when we witness the slow death the old paradigms.”