“This book lands with the force of birth itself: powerful, natural, sublime. A must-read for anyone planning to give birth anywhere ever. A literary retribution for those of us who have already been there.”
Julie Lythcott-Haims | New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult
“If you really want to know what to expect when you are expecting, Birth Control is a must read. Yarrow takes a deep research-based dive into the modern industrial complex of birth while also normalizing and validating what so many of us have experienced. Birth Control is a path forward to getting it right. Our humanity literally depends on it.”
Eve Rodsky | New York Times bestselling author of FairPlay
“What a harrowing and necessary book. Yarrow exposes the grim reality of American childbirth while offering a personal lifeline of hope and solidarity. Birth Control is revelatory.”
Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein | Creators of the award-winning documentary The Business of Being Born
“Allison Yarrow has written a definitive book about the trauma and tragedy of the American childbirth experience.”
Soraya Chemaly | Author of Rage Becomes Her
“This fascinating, impassioned and exhaustively researched book is a must-read for anyone who has ever been involved in childbirth. Which is everyone. Allison Yarrow shines a light on misogyny in the American healthcare system, and offers hope for what giving birth can look like when women, rather than profits, are centered.”
Courtney Sullivan | New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers
“Birth Control is clarion call to physicians to do better by and for birthing people. It’s time to relearn birth as a sacred event, not as the manufactured medical catastrophe waiting to happen that we’ve been indoctrinated to believe it is, and Birth Control points the way.”
Aviva Romm MD | New York Times bestselling author of Hormone Intelligence
“Birth Control tells the critically important story of how birth went from a physiologic event to a medical one with empathy, journalistic rigor and details. A must-read for anyone who is considering, cares about, or came from a birth.”
Kimberly Seals Allers | Author of The Big Letdown, Founder of Irth App