You skewed my words
regarding «managing» my birth... the whole point of the midwife is to alert the mother of the possibility of a problem, just like an OB so then a proper course of action can be taken... I was merely saying that they don't think of birth as a medical emergency from the beginning, requiring things that are unnecessary, like constant monitoring because it's easier than intermittent monitoring, or restricting maternal
intake because the doctor could get puked on, or have fecal matter excreted during delivery is selfish (and yes, I know, the mother could aspirate, but the rate of that is low too... and I'm not saying they need to eat a steak dinner... but denying a drink of
water, or a popsicle during a long labor is just ridiculous, as is rushing a natural process for convenience sake.)
With
regards to our campaign to get power plants to update their cooling systems, he said that it really doesn't matter if the fish around power plant
water intake structures are sucked into or otherwise maimed or killed by those structures and that their impacts will be minimal on the surrounding ecosystem.
While on the 2nd Circuit, Sotomayor wrote an opinion agreeing with an environmental group's argument that EPA was required to choose the best technology for a cooling -
water intake at a power plant without
regard to balancing costs and benefits.