“…Until this day, I already believed in the importance of the birthing process. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, a Women's Studies course on Women's Health taught by (now) renown Nurse-Midwife researcher, Dr. Lisa Kane Low [ 1 ], introduced me to women's reproductive health in a way that felt simultaneously grounding and horrifying. Using a feminist framework, I, alongside a hundred other 19-year-olds, absorbed the complicated history of current obstetric and gynecologic clinical practices with many misogynist or racist underpinnings [ [2] , [3] , [4] ].…”