“Many midwives have a graduate nursing degree.” And many don’t. Most of the midwives who perform home births don’t have any college degree at all. Only CNMs have actual college degrees, CPMs do not. CPMs also don’t have hospital admitting privileges should something go wrong.

As someone who recently finished a one month rotation at a teaching hospital for OB, I have to strongly disagree with many of the author’s assertions. I think the assumption that most physicians practice in the manner in which the author describes are inaccurate and I question what evidence the author had in making…