Did feminism actually leave women more vulnerable in birth?

Modern medicine says birth has never been safer. So why are more women walking away feeling traumatized, disempowered, and unheard?

After a delivery that almost wasn’t a live birth, Leah Jacobson says the biggest lesson wasn’t about control. It was about surrender.

In this episode, we ask a deeper question: Did something break in the system or did something shift in how we understand the female body itself?

We explore how modern birth became a managed process, why C-section and induction rates continue to rise, and how a culture built on control may be working against women’s health.

Leah, founder of the Guiding Star Project and author of Wholistic Feminism, offers a radically different vision. One that reconnects women to their bodies instead of ov ...