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We want to invite you to join us in the beautiful city of Strasbourg, France, for what is sure to be an amazing conference. The right to have the most joyous and healthy pregnancy, birth and postpartum time possible should be a human right for both mother and baby. This conference is going to be an exceedingly powerful event. We will bring Birth Rights into the human rights arena. Women and babies are suffering abuses at the hands of medical professionals. Many of these abuses are similar to the travesties done to women in Africa and the Middle East. It is also similar to domestic violence. Women's voices are being squashed. Though these issues can be daunting, Midwifery Today conferences are about hope and solutions as well as carrying out visions and dreams. Though we will highlight the issues we will give optimism and the possibility of a bright future.

When we all join our creative birth minds the synergy will produce solutions and a path on which to place them. We can then go back into our sphere of influence and make change. Moreover, we will ask that you enlarge your sphere of influence and change the world for motherbaby. We need to work at all levels from the personal one-on-one to changing governments and organizations. In addition to this issue we will, as always, have a rich offering of practical midwifery and birth classes designed to make you a better birth practitioner so you can continue to change the world, one birth at a time

Confirmed speakers include:

Ina May Gaskin Naolí Vinaver Carol Gautschi Harriette Hartigan Robbie Davis-Floyd Elizabeth Davis Debra Pascali-Bonaro Gail Hart

Eneyda Spradlin-Ramos Michel Odent Verena Schmid Tine Greve Cornelia Enning Agnès Keller Jan Tritten Martine De Nardi

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