It would be nice if hospitals could become as safe a place for normal birth as they are for high-risk ones, and women could feel confident that they and their babies would be treated with respect, and that birth wouldn't be treated like an illness. If that happened, hospital birth might become a safe, nurturing choice.

The problem is, women have to be educated enough to know what the options are and how quickly those choices can be taken away in the hospital setting we have now. Then they might get mad enough to make some changes. The thing is, how do we do it?