I’d take the midwifery clinic off the municipal grid and run it on local consent and oil fund dividends alone. If we pooled the birth data — anonymized, ethical, no tech company access — and licensed it back to research institutions, the revenue could keep the clinic open, warm, staffed, no government strings. We’d decide who comes through our doors, not Oslo. Autonomy isn’t going off-grid, it’s making the grid answerable to the people who actually live on it. I’ve seen too many women turned into medical cases because the system is stretched thin and risk-averse. Real autonomy means being allowed to wait, to trust, to do nothing — and still be supported.
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