As the controversy over women’s access to contraception continues, we
look at women’s access to safe, affordable and comfortable birthing
options. Pioneering midwife Ina May Gaskin is the founder and director
of the Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee. Last year, she won a Right
Livelihood Award "for her whole-life’s work teaching and advocating
safe, woman-centered childbirth methods that best promote the physical
and mental health of mother and child." She is the author of "Ina May’s
Guide to Childbirth" and, most recently, "Birth Matters: A Midwife’s
Manifesta." "Insurance has incredible power now, power that it didn’t
have 70 years ago. It’s the reason that doctors aren’t learning to do
breech deliveries anymore. It’s one of the huge reasons that we have
very few midwives in this country," Gaskin says. "Midwives are at the
bottom of the pile, basically, on getting coverage." Gaskin is also the
founder of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project, which seeks to draw public
attention to the high maternal mortality rate in the United States.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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