All women have the right to sacred, profound and loving birth experiences.
Childbirth must never be viewed by birth attendants as routine, cumbersome or insignificant.

Childbirth must happen in physical and emotional privacy.
A woman’s vagina during birth is as sacrosanct as at any other time. Routinely penetrating a vagina with fingers, forceps, scissors or hooks is a severe violation against the most fundamental rights of women to privacy and protection of the self. Women have the right to vocalize and assume any birthing positions they like, and allow their births to unfold uniquely, without the need for approval from her birth attendants. All physicians, hospital personnel, midwives, and family must be given full consent from the birthing woman before viewing the birth. No institution has the right to impose spectators on any woman’s birth.

Women have the right and power of "No"!
If women understand interventions and procedures, and they refuse to allow them, their refusals must be respected by all medical personnel.

All women must be physically safe at birth.
Instruments of routine interventions seriously harm the bodies of women: scissors, knives, harmful drugs, forceps, catheters, hooks, needles, fingers, tubes and razors can be classified as tools of assault.

All babies, either in the process of being born or after their births, deserve to not be harmed.
Forceps, scalp hooks, instruments of extraction, careless handling, intravenous devices, and an oxygen deprived birth environment caused by either pain relieving drugs given to the mother, or drugs of induction- all cause a great deal of distress to new babies and can upset their well being.

All women have the right to complete and immediate access to information regarding all procedures done--either to them or their baby--in pregnancy, birth and the post partum.
Women must be informed of any potential harm of all procedures, regardless of the length of time the explaining takes.

It must be recognized as a criminal act to mutilate women’s bodies in birth.
Whether it be by cesarean scar or episiotomy.

All women must have easy, free access to information that illuminates the natural childbirth process for them.
Information that helps them prepare for their births and assists them in preparation for their newborn. This information must be given with truth, that does not view birth as dangerous, a biological anomaly, but as a natural joyous one.

All women have the right to give birth wherever and with whomever they choose.
And to know the safety statistics of any individuals and/or institutions they choose to give birth with/in.

All women have the right to complete access of their own medical records.

The newborn must be viewed as a natural extension of it’s mother.

Ongoing breast feeding information and support must be available to all women.

The rights of women are inalienable, and will not be undermined by any government, male partner, extended family member, professional birth attendant, nor any group of individuals whose interests do not reflect the wishes of the birthing mother regarding her own, and her baby's safety and well being.
A vital factor in birth safety is that a woman’s wishes are respected and listened to by her care provider.