contradicted by the NY Times article. Can't really see how you can disagree with that.

Regarding your follow-up post, the same article says midwives did better--when women don't have initial risk factors--than doctors in every setting except first-time mothers delivering at home:

"The guidance applies to healthy women who are considered at low risk for complications because they have had no previous complicated birth, they are expected to deliver a single baby at full term and their baby is presenting head first. These mothers and their babies fared better with midwives than with doctors in almost all settings, except for first-time mothers delivering at home."