http://mobile.philly.com/blogs/?wss=%2Fphilly%2Fblogs%2Fbirth-breath-death%2F&id=255198201
A thoughtful on-line article summarising the freebirth situation in the USA.
I have been unable to track down the New Scientist article Amy Wright Glenn mentions but I did find this which is where I think the stats come from:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000345.htm
Also this article about a sect I had never heard of which describes more recent (2009) events in what I think is the same religious community:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/1618/my_womb_for_his_purposes__the_perils_of_unassisted_childbirth_in_the_quiverfull_movement
and which shows that dogma, and especially patriarchal dogma, is not good for women.
