FBS, which promotes an extreme version of free birth in which women abandon any form of prenatal care and give birth without doctors or midwives present, is estimated to have generated more than $13m in revenues since 2018. A recent Guardian investigation identified 48 cases of late-term stillbirths or neonatal deaths or other forms of serious harm involving mothers or birth attendants who appear to be linked to FBS.
(Yolande) Norris-Clark has not responded to repeated requests for comment about the Guardian’s investigation, which is told through The Birth Keepers podcast series. She has previously defended her partnership with Saldaya, saying FBS is “the most ethical kind of business you can run”. Critics of FBS, she has said, fail to understand the commitment to women taking “radical responsibility” for their births. And she has said it is unfair to hold her responsible for the choices of a mother who consumes her content.
Many of the women who follow Norris-Clark on social media, seeking advice in their pregnancies, are unaware of her more extreme views, which she sometimes revealed to FBS students. “I actually don’t believe that gravity is true,” she told FBS students in 2024, adding: “Maybe that just makes me crazy and that’s totally OK.” In another class, she told students they could cut a baby’s umbilical cord with an “old rusty fork”. “I don’t believe in germ theory,” she said, “I don’t believe in contagion,” adding: “But even if contagion were real … there would be a pretty much 0% chance of anything happening.”
They made $13,000,000 without the use of any medicine, medical supplies, doctors, or training apparently… that’s insane.
The anti-medicine/anti-vax/anti-professional intervention crowd need to get in the fucking bin
Evolution is a slow process, but it will eventually take care of the job.
Humans have supplanted natural selection. Evolution will not fix this.
They are working on that.
“I don’t believe in germ theory,” she said, “I don’t believe in contagion,”
Ah, yes, I agree. It’s definitely the four humors that actually cause disease. “Covid-19” is just caused by a build up of phlegm. I just haven’t figured out why the build up of phlegm spreads from person to person… hmmm.
Bringing back “dying in childbirth” at the ripe old age of 24.
Back to the good old days. It’s the natural way, just as god intended.
Yet another example of the bubble-wrapped child-safe world allowing evolutionary dead-ends to survive to procreate.
Read some history hoss. There were plenty of morons when child mortality was high.
Yeah that comment took a surprisingly dark turn. I expected it to be something about survivorship bias leading people to do more stupid shit because they’ve been so protected they haven’t had to face danger, but like…“oh see what happens when we don’t kill off those people”?? Wtf how do you get there
No, you can fuck right off with that moronic social darwinism.
Nah I want to see these oxygen wasters injure and kill themselves to remind the ones with enough brain cells why humanity developed technology like medicine and germ-theory.
Please feel free to waste your empathy and time trying save them, I’ve given up.
They’re perfectly free to write their own story and if that story happens to be a sad tragedy serving as a warning others what happens when you ignore medical advice, then great, they’ve contributed to humanity!
