Chicago Maternity Center Story Official Trailer: New on DVD

http://www.kartemquin.com/films/the-chicago-maternity-center-story

For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. However, when modern medicine's attitude toward home birth changed and funding from Northwestern University declined in 1974, the center was forced to close. This film interweaves the history of the center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center's fight to stay open in the face of the corporate takeover of medicine.

"An important and powerful documentary about women battling corporate medicine to control their own bodies. Unfortunately it is as relevant today as it was 33 years ago."

Liz Canner, Director of "Orgasm, Inc."

New on DVD from Kartemquin Films, the makers of HOOP DREAMS, TYPEFACE and THE INTERRUPTERS.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• kartemquin
• ktq
• gordon quinn
• chicago maternity center
• midwives
• midwifery
• home delivery
• obstetrics
• health industry
• duella
• social issue documentary
• fight for life
• pare lorentz
• cinema verite
• childbirth
• Dr. Beatrice Tucker
• orgasm inc
• homebirth
• home birth
• feminism
• feminist film

[unnecesarean]

This movie is outstanding. Women pushing back against commodification of their bodies and births by corporate entities remains a relevant topic 40 years later.