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Show Home delivery is for pizza and I have made, knowing we have done everything possible to insure the safe delivery of our children. The best way I can summarize my feelings about home delivery is by sharing with you a well phrased bumper sticker "Home Delivery is For Pizza." You are right, I did criticize a little, but then no one is perfect. --Terry Sorensen Pleasant Grove Editor: During the past few weeks I have followed the editorials concerning what started out to be a doctor's concerns about the trend of home delivery and has since become a discussion on the evils of abortion. My experience with Pleasant Grove Ambulance Association for the past four years has shown me that apparently home birth must be reasonably safe due to the limited number of calls due to complications com-plications at birth. The major problem I have seen in the calls I have responded to is the lack of training of the individuals present at the birth. CP. R. is a skill that is relatively easy to learn, and for someone who is responsible for, or is attempting to bring a newslife into this world, C.P.R. should be as essential as knowing how to boil water, cut an umbilical cord or collect the modest fee charged for such services. In my opinion basic C.P.R. skills would have saved the lives of two of the infants I have responded to. I didn't write this letter to criticize those who elect to have , their babies at home or to condone abortion. We have our free agency to choose between either of these choices but we also must accept the responsibility for these decisions. In my personal experience two of my four children would not have survived home delivery. I feel very good about the decisions my wife |