Debate: Is Home Birth Ever a Safe Choice?
Should more women be encouraged to have kids at home?

Claim: Women should not be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: Home birth is safe for healthy women.
Warrant 0: a woman can find out how healthy a delivery will be before it is upon her
Warrant 1: a woman cannot know how health a delivery will be until it is upon her
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Women should be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: Instead of having children at home, hospitals should work to improve their services and environment.
Warrant 0: they're doing that
Warrant 1: they haven't done that yet
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Women should not be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: Having a birth at home with a qualified midwife allowed me to have control of the birthing process in a natural and comfortable manner.
Warrant 0: I would like that experience to not be unique to myself
Warrant 1: I would like that experience to be unique to myself
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Women should not be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: Home birth is safe for healthy women.
Warrant 0: It is possible to know which women are healthy
Warrant 1: It is impossible to know which women are healthy
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Women should be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: Instead of having children at home, hospitals should work to improve their services and environment.
Warrant 0: hospitals won't try to improve
Warrant 1: hospitals will try to improve
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Women should be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: Writer had daughter with entangled cord and the doctor was helpful.
Warrant 0: most midwives couldn't handle something like that easily in a home birth
Warrant 1: this is a rare occurrence and most midwives could handle something like that easily in a home birth
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Women should not be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: There are lower infant and maternal mortality rates in places with higher percentages of home births.
Warrant 0: lower infant mortality rates aren't natural
Warrant 1: higher infant mortality rates in the hospital aren't natural
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Women should not be encouraged to have kids at home
Reason: The hospital environment made me feel like I was a prisoner from the start.
Warrant 0: you need to follow orders for birth to be successful
Warrant 1: you don't need to follow orders for birth to be successful
Correct warrant: 0