Blog 6-Oregon Moms

I feel like the story "Oregon Moms" was soft news simply because in the end, It's up to a mother how she wants to give birth. Obviously, in certain circumstances, a C-Section might have to be performed, or birth given a certain way, but the majority of the time, the parent gets to choose. I felt it was soft news because it was long and there were a lot of interviews, and it jumped around to a bunch of different perspectives. If it was hard news, it would have been a lot more focused, and stayed more in the center. I think the author of this story feels the pressure women are put under to give birth naturally is ridiculous, and she wanted to point out that viewpoint by using some people as extreme examples. I feel that she thinks mothers should give birth in the way they are most comfortable doing so.