"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
                                                      --Laura Stavoe Harm

 

Pregnant in America
 

Pregnant in America is the controversial story of life's greatest miracle in the hands of a nation's most powerful interests.

When Steve's wife Mandy became pregnant, Steve immediately saw that something was wrong with the way women were being treated in the American maternity system. He thought a movie would help create a better environment for women in the US.

The Business of Being Born
by Ricki Lake
 

"Spontaneous labour in a normal woman is an event marked by a number of processes so complicated and so perfectly attuned to each other that any interference will only detract from the optimal character. The only thing required from the bystanders is that they show respect for this awe-inspiring process by complying with the first rule of medicine--nil nocere [do no harm]."    (Kloosterman)

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