The Chicago Maternity Center Story

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1974 60 min

Rated
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Jerry Blumenthal

Presented by Kartemquin Films, Birth Workers of Color Collective, and Muffy Film Productions

Featuring a post-film community conversation

For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. However, when modern medicine’s attitude toward home birth changed and funding from Northwestern University declined in 1974, the center was forced to close. This film interweaves the history of the center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center’s fight to stay open in the face of the corporate takeover of medicine.

WHO DELIVERS CHICAGO?

1974
USA
English
60 min
Limited Availability

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