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Film: Documentary The Chicago Maternity Center Story (1976)

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Thirty years before Michael Moore's critical diagnosis of the American healthcare system, The Chicago Maternity Center Story examined how the interests of corporations and those of patients often have little to do with one another. Director Jerry Blumenthal doesn't shy away from the political implications of one woman's struggle to safely give birth to her first child at home. As corporate medicine shied away from home delivery in the '70s, the Center, which helped mothers with their home births, found its budget cut. With the 2008 Iowa caucus just weeks away, healthcare reform and reproductive rights are still political third rails — making The Chicago Maternity Center Story still all too relevant.

– Stephen Gossett