Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“The scandal of death through childbirth is not an argument for routine medicalised, interventionist birth, though it is often used as an excuse.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

— Michel Odent

“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down…

— Steven Magee

“all over the world women are impeded from protecting their own and their babies’ health, and often survival, because of factors beyond their control.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“To them it’s like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy. ”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.”

— Peggy Vincent

“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.”

— Peggy Vincent

“child birthing to women is like what battles are to men.”

— Sarah Tucker

“There are two others: the erroneous claim that anything natural must be safe, and the bedrock assertion of midwives, doulas, and other natural childbirth…

— Amy Tuteur

“Women do not seek abortion because they are ignorant that the fetus is a potential child - they seek abortion precisely because they know…

— Ann Furedi