Twilight Sleep
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Women in the 1900's believed painless childbirth to be a right. Leading doctors to begin offering Twilight Sleep a mixture of morphine and scopolamine. Unbeknownst to these women, they were paving the way for privatized medicine and childbirth being a medical procedure rather than a private matter. Three women and a husband share their story in this fictionalized piece revolving around Twilight Sleep.
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