Homebirth advocates rally around doctor convicted of sexual exploitation of patient.

It's probably the most egregious violation of professional conduct that any obstetrician-gynecologist can commit. I'm talking about the sexual exploitation of a patient.

You might think that such a doctor would be a pariah among patients, especially after a conviction, and the decision by the California Board of Medicine to place him on probation for 7 years, but you'd be wrong about this doctor. He is currently soliciting donations from patients and supporters for his latest legal woes, precipitated by routinely ignoring hospital policy, and women are proudly giving money.

What group of women would deliberately ignore a conviction for sexual exploitation and rally around a doctor in spite of it? Homebirth advocates, of course. They have chosen to ignore the behavior of Dr. Stuart Fischbein because he provides back up for homebirth midwives.