ABSTRACT
When engaging with the medical industrial complex during childbirth, women must navigate a complex medical network that engages medical, biological, economic, and social institutions. These systems too often result in violations of women during childbirth. This chapter identifies rhetorical strategies to help birth care workers, such as doulas, facilitate consenting interactions for women during childbirth. Cultivating this ethos of consent within the medical industrial complex helps support a cultural shift in how women navigate healthcare within systems.
