Midwife’s 14-year sentence highlights attacks on women’s autonomy, global surge in unnecessary C-sections

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it under house arrest in Brazil after recently being sentenced to 14 years prison for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died, reports Tamara Pearson.

childbirth in a hospital

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