State first to allow C-sections outside of hospitals

Florida has become the first state to allow doctors to perform cesarean sections outside of hospitals with the passage of legislation that allows "advanced birth centers."

Advanced birth centers are places outside of hospitals where physicians can deliver babies vaginally or by C-section to women deemed at low risk of complications. Women's Care Enterprises, a private-equity-owned physicians group with locations in Florida, California and Kentucky, lobbied the state legislature to make the change. 

While the group says that the change will lower costs and give pregnant women the homier birthing atmosphere that many desire, many in the hospital industry say that performing C-sections in doctor-run clinics will increase the risks for women and babies when complications arise. 

Read more: CNN

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