The Media Has Brainwashed Women To Fear Birth—But We Deserve The Truth
It started in a high school health class. Our teacher announced we would be watching a video of a woman giving birth and every student in the room audibly groaned. I had no interest in watching the video, which I assumed was unpleasant, based on the attitude of our health teacher. So I put my head down and took a nap.
We weren’t asked to watch a childbirth video because they wanted to teach us about the miracle of birth – it was clearly to dissuade us from getting pregnant. As any girl who went to public school during the ‘90s or early 2000s knows, the one thing that was drilled into our heads more than anything else was “Don’t get pregnant.” If you didn’t go to public school but you’ve seen Mean Girls, the scene where Coach Carr teaches “sex education” is about right.