Birth as we know it is the most medically managed of all biological processes that we experience. A woman can be trusted to have a bowel movement on her own, but not to birth her own baby that she's grown for 9 months. Hell, we don't even trust ourselves to give birth! When society stopped honoring women as the authority of our own bodies, our autonomy was stolen, and birth along with it. Autonomy is defined as the right or condition of self-government, and it’s become almost