A new law in Florida allowing doctors to perform cesarean sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns among medical experts, who say the procedures carry a small but real risk of life-threatening complications and should not be undertaken outside hospitals.
Advanced birth centers, even with increased regulations, cannot guarantee the level of safety patients would receive within a hospital, he said.
Florida itself lags other states in maternal care, getting a D+ grade in a recent March of Dimes report because maternal outcomes for Black women are abysmal.
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