Charité cuts midwifery places / study places - midwife reacts

One of Germany's most renowned clinics is cutting half of its midwifery training positions (it's now a university degree!), despite years of warnings about a midwife shortage and the now visible consequences. The reason? Declining birth rates. The only strange thing is that it's simultaneously leaking that the budget is tight. Instead of openly saying, "We need more funding from the state of Berlin," the responsibility is simply shifted to birth statistics.
A question for all of us:
Are midwives not sustainably profitable for the clinic system due to flawed policies?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have this discourse instead of arguing, "there aren't enough babies anyway"? Because anyone who experiences midwives in metropolitan areas like Berlin, attending to several births simultaneously, knows:

We've been missing for a long time! Instead of seizing the opportunity to finally provide better care for birthing people, capacities are being cut.

This is like closing daycare centers because fewer children are being born, without considering that birth rates fluctuate and care must be ensured long-term. While we complain about too few midwives, too few nurses, and overcrowded delivery rooms, training paths are made even more difficult

and all of this in a society that increasingly restricts women's rights and hinders rather than promotes the midwifery profession. The cut is not only symbolically wrong, it is also practically the wrong path.

How can we make midwifery work worthwhile for everyone again – so that our value not only exists ideologically but is visible to everyone, including the (financial) clinic management, who sees in black and white that a spontaneous birth is just as "valuable" as a C-section?