{"author":"Marsden Wagner","author_id":"Marsden+Wagner","total_quotes":4,"quotes":[{"text":"...The total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.","author":"Marsden Wagner","tags":["birth","pregnancy"],"id":7051,"author_id":"Marsden+Wagner"},{"text":"One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.","author":"Marsden Wagner","tags":["birth","midwifery"],"id":109709,"author_id":"Marsden+Wagner"},{"text":"Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.","author":"Marsden Wagner","tags":["birth","c-section","pregnancy"],"id":182681,"author_id":"Marsden+Wagner"},{"text":"Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.","author":"Marsden Wagner","tags":["birth","midwifery"],"id":426112,"author_id":"Marsden+Wagner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}