Death Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Many women think it is birth itself which is damaging and are unaware that it is an intervention which caused the problem.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.”

— Peggy Vincent

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“It seemed the medical establishment cared more about the principle of unfettered access to abortion than the safety of real-life women”

— Ann McElhinney

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

— Achy Obejas

“American Health Insurance Companies have classified pregnancy as an illness, so if pregnancy is an illness was the baby-boom a plague?”

— Jayseth Guberman

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In childbirth grief begins.”

— Euripides

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother…

— John F. Kerry

“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once did I…

— Ana Castillo