Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention
rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting
natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to
stop the hyper-medicalization of birth--which has lead to nearly a third
of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections--and renew
confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women
become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that
most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth
Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value
birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.