We're Here to Save the Mothers

Nine times out of ten, we're here to save the mothers. It's the loss of these women and often their children, that cost us our ture. There is something intimately gory about birth that cannot be matched on a battlefield. We are at the crux of life, where everything begins and ends. The way we do feels obscene. Often we have appeared during a time of crisis, an intensely personal time. And often we come between a woman and her family.