There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

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

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

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know

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.

Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.