I just read this article in the New York Times, entitled Giving Birth in Chains:
The primitive practice of chaining women in childbirth should shame us all. As one father put it after his wife, who was serving time for vehicular homicide, gave birth in custody: “It sounds like something from slavery 200 years ago.”
I went through two births. I don’t know about you, but I remember, quite vividly, not even being able to hear someone chant “breathe, breathe”, let alone plot an escape. Exactly how far can you go, with a head hanging out of your dilated woman parts…