Of particular concern is the loss of competitive stimulation within the healthcare industry . This creates a quasi-monopoly that drives up premiums paid by employers and individuals, making California businesses less able to compete in a global economy. It also removes the single most economical category of caregiver and the single most economical birth setting from the pool of practitioners authorized to provide care under medical to indigent families. That rate, among the worst in the developed world, has been condemned by health expertise as a preventable tragedy and a national disgrace. It is in agreement with the principle stated by the World Health Organization that each women has a fundamental right to receive proper prenatal care, that the women has a central role in all aspects of this care, including participation in the planning, carrying out, and evaluation of the care and the social, emotional, and psychological factors are decisive in the understanding and implementation of proper prenatal care.
Prenatal care reduces the incidence of low birth weights.
Five nations with the best perinatal mortality rates have 70 percent of all birth attended by midwives.