It is characteristic of the Amish to be big supporters of those who do as they believe in. Government Intrudes in Home Births
The government has decided to do what it can to discourage midwifery and home births, by threatening $40,000 in fines for a woman who assists the Amish community to do what they've always done: birth their babies at home. The Amish have come out in the hundreds to support the victim of socialistic government over-regulation.
Childbirth is pretty much a thing that happens by itself, whether in a field by a worker, on in the back of a taxi, or in an understaffed and overcrowded hospital. Whether there is another person present or not, when it is time for the baby to arrive, the baby comes.
Medicine helps when there is a crisis, yet the Amish have no phones or means to contact an ambulance or EMT when labor begins. They already know this may come up. This knowledge has not motivated them to have modern conveniences installed in their homes. The Amish that I know, if they feel they need or want medical care, find their own ways to see to it.
This is their RIGHT. Government intrusion, by micromanaging even the smallest details such as an experienced woman to be present at a home birth, is one more way governments are TAKING OUR RIGHTS.
That the government wants to begin this with the Amish is VERY TELLING.
Another attempt to eat the Amish lifestyle alive will increase the insatiable government's appetite for more. Will you be next?
