The long-established tradition of African-American home-birth midwifery has been outlawed in the State of Illinois. At the same time, Black women suffer massively disproportionate maternal mortality in US hospital settings.

‘With Woman’ follows Star, a Black, direct-entry midwife, who has taken up the cause of providing Black women with home births. Star guides Raven through the last month of her pregnancy, from prenatal visits to the astonishingly intimate and agonisingly perilous experience of her birth on the kitchen floor. Felony charges and being separated from her four children are at risk for Star if there is a poor outcome for the mother or baby.

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