Quiz

The way the two shows construct the women's bodies are in two similar yet different ways. In the movie the business of being born Women's bodies are shown as being very strong but yet a commodity for the health care industry.  the movie would show how insurance companies would refuse to cover the cost of home births and it would also show how the doctors talk to the mothers and essentially telling them they need to have a C-section or a vacuum assisted birth, all to just make money i.e a commodity. yet when the movie portrayed the home births it should the women in pain but yet they were able to deliver naturally showing the birth in a peaceful light. because the movie demonized the health care industry the midwives and not the doctors are the "knowledgeable ones." this is in sharp contrast to the show one born every minute, which showed birthing as a very painful yet rewarding struggle.  the doctors and nurses are seen as very knowledgeable and they don't cater to their own needs or the mothers need but rather to the need of the baby.  It makes birthing seem painful but it makes it seem like the hospitals are not the enemy.  the two portrayals are similar in the way that birthing is seen as rewarding and women's bodies are shown as strong.