Domino Kirke Quotes

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.

You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

How may child bearing women be most encouraged and supported in the time of childbearing?

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

When I was twenty-six, I had my son.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.