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“ 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. ”

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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.

~ Ina May Gaskin

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?

~ Ina May Gaskin

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.

~ Ina May Gaskin

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.

~ Ina May Gaskin