Today is National Freedom Day! What comes to mind for me first when thinking about freedom is that this country was founded by people who simply wanted the freedom to worship as they saw fit. By people who simply wanted to live according to God's Word. By people who didn't want to answer to a king. For well over 200 years, people in this country have bled and died for those freedoms. They solidified those freedoms in our Constitution and when it was deemed not good enough, they ratified the Constitution to ensure that freedom in the United States was meant for all of our citizens. Our freedom should never been taken lightly!

What does freedom have to do with birth? Everything! So many times I hear from women, "the doctor said I had to," or "they are making me do..." and I cringe. That is not freedom. That is coercion. You have the freedom to decline anything they are forcing on you. You have the freedom to make your own choices in how, where, and when you want to give birth. 

Grab ahold of that freedom!

Let freedom ring!