Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring and

celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, we'll unpack truths, share personal stories,

and claim our ability to birth freely and intuitively. Here's your host, Emily Sal day. Exciting news listeners the free birth society apparel store has opened

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Today we pivot to directly discussing hospital culture and the regularly violated legal and human rights of women.

I am privileged to be joined by an incredible lawyer

and human rights activist, Hermann Hayes Klein,

founder of human rights and childbirth.

She worked for five years to organize international

conferences of maternity care stakeholders to discuss women's

fundamental rights in childbirth. Her mean is a huge force in advocating and

shifting the focus on the huge gap in care between

honoring legal rights in the medical field and the reality of today's modern day

birth culture. We also talk about what's a doula to do, understanding client legal rights, the ethical obligation

of Dula's, the problematic, scope of practice, and the downside of professionalism.

I'm a lawyer.

I'm a lawyer and my work in the area. I'm a lawyer and my work in the area of birth justice is to advocate for women's

right to be the authority in all health care decisions that they might have to make throughout pregnancy, birth, and

postpartum, basically all their reproductive health care decisions, including the decisions

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