This is a pretty neutral story about one of the enquiries - not the Nottingham enquiry or the other local ones. I’ll admit I’m actually having a bit of trouble sorting out which piece of appalling news is coming from which.
From a feminist point of view, I should think there are quite a lot of ways to analyse what’s going on. I don’t know whether others feel that?
The big push from the 70s onwards to deconstruct interventionism and paternalism in an era of big numbers of births to a much younger cohort of women unfortunately translates into reduced medical oversight in an era now when labouring mothers are older, fewer and have more comorbidities. Again and again I hear about conflict and disconnection between midwives and medical teams. I still think a feminist viewpoint is important because this is about women and babies, their health and even their survival, but it’s as if feminist analysis of power relationships is done in a vacuum of any other kind of thought or ethic, and focusing only on professional staff, not the women and babies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g45ev3gkdo