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.

Ina May Gaskin
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  1. It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

  2. Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

  3. Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

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  5. It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

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