BORN FREE – The State of Lady’s Rights By way of the Lens of Motherhood Explored in New Documentary – That Second In

With girls’s healthcare and reproductive rights on the forefront of stories and surrounding the midterm elections, the documentary BORN FREE is a well timed exploration into the bodily autonomy battle that explores the true value of delivery in america that shockingly has the best, and rising, maternal mortality fee within the developed world.  Debuting on digital platforms starting November 8, the transferring documentary was impressed by first-time filmmaker Paula James Martinez’ personal childbirth expertise and contains a host of consultants and maternal well being advocates together with Christy Turlington, equitable maternal outcomes professional Chanel Porchia-Albert, Charles Johnson whose personal spouse died in childbirth, Senator Tammy Duckworth, Senator Joe Kennedy and extra who talk about the affect of present medical system requirements and supreme failure for many who expertise traumatic pregnancies.   Along side the movie launch, James-Martinez and co-producer Rebecca Dayan are additionally launching the nationwide charitable group The Mom Lovers to offer assets, training, and advocacy for anticipating moms.  A portion of proceeds from movie gross sales will go to the nonprofit to fund its work.

NOVEMBER 8 STREAMING DEBUT 

The Mom Lovers: https://themotherlovers.com

Regardless of having the costliest healthcare on the earth, the variety of girls experiencing each being pregnant and childbirth problems within the US has elevated 31.5 p.c since 2014 (Blue Cross/Blue Protect Research).  Many ladies throughout being pregnant and childbirth expertise post-traumatic stress dysfunction, emergency surgical procedure, excessive anxiousness points and chapter.  For the 1 in 1,000 girls who’ve excessive threat pregnancies, problems typically come up attributable to lack of knowledgeable selection, medical overreach, and generally abuse, and this disproportionately impacts girls of colour.

“As a former journal editor, I’ve spent my complete life telling tales to girls by the pages of shiny magazines. However nothing fairly as important because the tales shared in BORN FREE,” notes movie director/producer Paula James-Martinez.  “After all of the analysis I did when anticipating my daughter, I turned to my husband aghast with how moms have been being handled in america. A rustic with one of many highest prices of delivery on the earth, but the developed worlds’ solely rising mortality fee.  He mentioned, ‘do one thing about it.’  Thus started my journey with BORN FREE.”