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pioning women's rights
to equal work and pay as
well as the more personal
right to be in charge of
the most primal act of
creation: that of giving
birth.
"Where does it all
come from?" she asks as
if mystified by her own
drives and desires and lets
out a laugh.
In 1976 when she was
pregnant with her first child, Browder decided to have a
home birth. is was at a time when women didn't do this.
ere were virtually no natural birthing books, let alone
any information available to help women understand the
process of bringing a
child into the world. e
birth went well, despite
"bringing her to her
knees", but she did end
up having to go to the
hospital when her pla-
centa wouldn't come out.
In the hospital she got
some fierce and unpleas-
ant lectures from a range
of people — from the
cleaners to the doctors
who accused her of risking her daughter's life.
Browder's personal experience planted the seed that grew
into her desire to allow women a more natural and less
invasive birth experience. When two Californian midwives
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