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Women's magazines encourage women to abandon midwife-assisted birth.

Date: 1915

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Magazines like McClure's and Good Housekeeping begin writing articles on the benefits of seeking obstetricians for birth, thereby supporting the cultural shift that has begun to see midwife-assisted birth as "backwards" and "unfit" for white, middle-class urban women.