Watch Freedom For Birth (2012) Online

A documentary that re-frames Human Rights issues as the most pressing issue in childbirth today; calling for radical change to the world's maternity systems - this is the Mothers' Revolution. In many countries around the world, women are being denied the most basic human right of autonomy over their own bodies. They cannot choose how and where to give birth. Those that persist in their desire to have a normal, physiological birth are sometimes forced by judges to surrender to surgery or threatened with having their babies taken away by child welfare services. In many countries, if a woman wants to have a home birth supported by a midwife, those midwives face criminal prosecution. Some midwives, like Ágnes Geréb in Hungary, are even imprisoned. FREEDOM FOR BIRTH calls for radical reform to the world’s maternity systems so that these Human Rights violations stop and women are afforded real choice as to how and where they give birth. Read More

Watch Freedom For Birth online. Featuring Sheila Kitzinger and Ina May Gaskin, Freedom For Birth is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 1 services such as Kanopy. The movie was filmed in United Kingdom and was released on 2012. Freedom For Birth was directed by Toni Harman. Read Less