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DeliveryDebates.sPubDate = "7/6/2005 7:47:20 PM GMT";
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DeliveryDebates.appHeader = "fact file|Delivery debates";
DeliveryDebates.appDeck = "Doctors, nurses, midwives and mothers don't always agree on the best way to birth a baby. Here's a look at some of the most controversial issues:";
DeliveryDebates.appFooter = "Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; MSNBC research.";
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DeliveryDebates[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>It's convenient to schedule a birth, and some say Caesarean sections help minimize the risks of urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction later in life. But other experts believe the risks of major surgery outweigh any other potential benefits.<br>";

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DeliveryDebates[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Doctors once routinely performed episiotomies &#151; incisions to widen the birth canal &#151; in the belief that they minimized tissue damage and helped women recover faster. But that view is changing. Many experts now say episiotomies should only be performed if the fetus is in distress (e.g. a shoulder is stuck).";

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DeliveryDebates[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>\"Once a C-section, always a C-section\" was the prevailing opinion for many years. Then in the 1990s doctors pushed to lower the escalating C-section rate by encouraging more vaginal births after Caesarean, or VBACs. Most recently, some doctors and many insurers say the risk of a uterine rupture or other complication with a VBAC is just too great. Others disagree.";

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DeliveryDebates[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Most doctors will induce if a woman goes two weeks past her due date. But other doctors will suggest inducing earlier and even give women the option of an elective induction a week or two before her due date. Experts disagree on when is the best time to induce, and if the practice is overused.";

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DeliveryDebates[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Perhaps the most controversial of all issues is where women should have their babies. Most doctors want women to deliver in a well-equipped medical facility in case something goes wrong. But many midwives and mothers feel that childbirth should occur in a more relaxed setting, and that it's safe for most women to do so.";

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