Freedom For Birth (2012)
Women will take childbirth back
A documentary that re-frames Human Rights issues as the most pressing issue in childbirth today; calling for radical change to the world's maternity systems - this is the Mothers' Revolution. In many countries around the world, women are being denied the most basic human right of autonomy over their own bodies. They cannot choose how and where to give birth. Those that persist in their desire to have a normal, physiological birth are sometimes forced by judges to surrender to surgery or threatened with having their babies taken away by child welfare services. In many countries, if a woman wants to have a home birth supported by a midwife, those midwives face criminal prosecution. Some midwives, like Ágnes Geréb in Hungary, are even imprisoned. FREEDOM FOR BIRTH calls for radical reform to the world’s maternity systems so that these Human Rights violations stop and women are afforded real choice as to how and where they give birth.
- Date of release
- 2012-09-20
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Toni Harman, Alex Wakeford
Casting
- Sheila Kitzinger — Self
- Ina May Gaskin — Self
- Michel Odent — Self
- Ágnes Geréb — Self
- Anna Ternovsky — Self
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