Current Affairs Parents and midwives protest in Prague for woman's right to give birth at home
Only a tiny minority of Czech women choose to give birth outside hospital, but they should still be allowed to make a choice - or at least that's what both the World Health Organisation and the European Union recommend. But Czech women may soon be denied the choice of giving birth at home with the assistance of a midwife - if the Senate approves a bill recently passed by the lower house. On Tuesday, mothers and fathers with young children and midwives gathered in the centre of Prague to protest against the move. Pavla Horakova spoke there to midwife Zuzana Stromerova.
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