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The Birth Keepers

I choose this

7/7/202637 min

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne

Clips

Bleeding to Death at Home
Ideology Shattered in Hospital
Reading Radicalization Notes
The Acceptable Script
Keeping Family In Dark

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Lucy Osborne· Host0:00

    This is The Guardian.

  2. Shirin Kale· Host0:01

    [upbeat music] Hi, I'm Shirin Khalek.

  3. Lucy Osborne· Host0:12

    And I'm Lucy Osborne.

  4. Shirin Kale· Host0:13

    You're listening to The Birth Keepers, a new six-part series from The Guardian Investigates.

  5. Lucy Osborne· Host0:19

    Just before we start, this series contains references to baby loss and maternal harm.

  6. Shirin Kale· Host0:24

    Yeah. I have it.

  7. Lucy Osborne· Host0:34

    You have it.

  8. Shirin Kale· Host0:34

    I have it.

  9. Lucy Osborne· Host0:34

    [gasps] You have the crown.

  10. Shirin Kale· Host0:36

    Yeah. [laughs] I can't believe it.

  11. Lucy Osborne· Host0:39

    That's the crown.

  12. Shirin Kale· Host0:42

    Um, it's one of them.

  13. Lucy Osborne· Host0:44

    Oh, gosh, I, I, I recognize it.

  14. Shirin Kale· Host0:47

    Yeah.

  15. Lucy Osborne· Host0:47

    [gentle music] It's summer, earlier this year, and my Guardian colleague, the investigative reporter Lucy Osborne, is in Omaha, Nebraska. She's interviewing a woman called Serendipity Day, who works for a business called The Free Birth Society, FBS, led by the influencer Emily Saldar.

  16. Shirin Kale· Host1:13

    It is gold medal, or, like, you know, it's not... It's gold-plated metal. Probably not real gold. If you go to her Instagram, you'll see it on her head.

  17. Lucy Osborne· Host1:25

    In The Free Birth Society,

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