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The Green Party has come under fire for claiming childbirth should be treated as a ‘non-medical event’ and calling life-saving caesareans ‘risky’ in its maternity policies.
Among its election pledges, it claims they will ‘work to reduce the number of interventions in childbirth’ and highlights the party’s concern over the falling rates of ‘natural’ births.
The proposals, which have now been removed from the party’s website but are still circulating on social media, have been branded ‘archaic’ and ‘disappointing’ by doctors.
Meanwhile patient safety experts have warned that a lack of intervention in childbirth can have ‘catastrophic consequences’.
It comes after the Greens’ bizarre plans to have crack cocaine and date rape drug GHB dispensed by pharmacists in a bid to fight the rising tide of addiction — a move that experts said could lead to more drug abuse, rather than less.