title: Whatever happened to the precautionary principle?
abstract: In this column, Sara Wickham takes a sideways look at issues relevant to midwives, students, women and families, inviting us to sit down with a cup of tea and ponder what we think we know. Here, she looks at one of the latest papers to join the trend of attempting to justify induction of labour in healthy women, raising questions about the language and stance used within the research and suggesting that women and midwives might gain from referring to the precautionary principle.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wickham
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007751:Labor, Induced / Q000592:standards*; D008880:Midwifery / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000592:standards*; D018570:Risk Assessment