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Childbirth: natural event, not medical emergency – how a film changed restaurateur Jindsay Jang’s life

Polemical documentary feature The Business of Being Born (2008), directed by Abby Epstein and produced by actor and talk-show host Ricki Lake, who is also one of its interview subjects, attacks the medicalisation and cost of childbirth in the United States. Presenting home births overseen by midwives as a preferable alternative to hospitals and obstetricians, the film advocates treating childbirth as a natural event rather than a medical emergency. Lindsay Jang, co-founder of restaurants...

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