birth rights, legal education, legal rights, self-advocacy

The Birth Rights Course

This is a crash course legal education on your rights during pregnancy, labor, and birth: what they are, where they come from, and how to use them.
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Andi Orwoll, Esq.
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The Birth Rights Course is Your Legal Doula’s flagship educational and informational offering – a full breakdown of your rights while pregnant, giving birth, and newly postpartum in the U.S.

The BRC is a self-paced program that helps you:

  1. Understand your birth rights – to know exactly what rights you have and where they come from. What are the rights of those preparing to, giving, and recovering from birth in the U.S.?
  2. Assert your birth rights – to be able to insist on your rights in all circumstances – and make people pay attention. We walk you through legally-informed scripts for talking to an employer, a health care provider, or a hospital administrator.
  3. Protect your birth rights – to be able to take the next step when someone stands between you and your rights. Sometimes you only need steps 1 and 2. Sometimes you need step 3: a complaint, a mediation session, a lawsuit, an appeal, or some other mechanism to defend your rights.
Introduction
Part I: Understand Your Birth Rights
Part II: Assert Your Birth Rights
Part III: Protect Your Birth Rights
Conclusion
Andi's Office Hours
Course Materials
Is there a payment plan?
Yes! When you click “Enroll Now – Payment Plan,” you’ll be able to split the payment over the course of three months on an auto-pay plan. Please note that the payment plan includes a small fee.
How do the live calls work?
Once a month, via Zoom, Your Legal Doula hosts a live, invitation-only call to answer your questions about the material in the Birth Rights Course. (Note that this call is never a substitute for the advice of your own legal counsel.) With your purchase of the course, you get access to nine live calls). While these calls are not recorded, particularly illuminating examples may be used as supplements to the various modules.
I live in [insert state here]. Will the Course work for me?
Your Legal Doula’s Birth Rights Course is designed to be useful to all people living in the United States. We cover federal law that protects us. In the coming months, state-specific modules will be added, and these can be added on to your purchase at any time. (First up, Nevada!)
How long will I have access to the course?
Once you purchase the Birth Rights Course, you are guaranteed access as long as Your Legal Doula hosts the Course. This includes any updates to the Course – which may occur periodically as the law changes in the world of birth rights.
How can I use the 1:1 call? What is "coaching," and how is it different from hiring an attorney?
With the purchase of the Birth Rights Course, you receive a 1:1 legal coaching call, intended for use after you complete the course, to answer any of your lingering questions about the material and what specific concerns you have. We don't become your attorney--but you can think of us as your "coach" for the hour. Hiring an attorney or even handling a legal matter yourself can be very expensive; so, Your Legal Doula offers the Birth Right Course, in part, to help prevent situations from escalating to the point that you need to hire an attorney to represent you in court or other entity. Consider this your chance to "pick a lawyer's brain," before you ever get to that point.
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Your tuition gives you access as long as we host the course - and includes any updates. You'll also gain access to a monthly Q&A call, where Your Legal Doula will answer questions about the Course contents.
The Birth Rights Course
Course details
Lectures 19
Video 3.5 hours
Level Beginner
Intended audience

This course is specifically designed for moms, by a mom. The course will also benefit birthworkers and anyone planning to support a pregnancy and/or birth, in a personal or professional capacity.