The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.