While it’s a very serious time in the United States of America and the world, it seems as if everything is on the line, with all of our personal rights and freedoms are in question  from free speech, biological and medical autonomy, to enhanced regulations and proliferating surveillance. Terminating a Pregnancy is so highly charged and upsets so many people, that it seems as if there’s no easy way to converse about it without upsetting many different groups of people with different beliefs. Pregnancy is often associated with and connected to our concepts of Creation, Love, God, and Divine Will. It brings up everything we feel, believe and think. It brings up our emotional connections to our own family of origin and to the concept of family itself. Pregnant women carry not only the pregnancy, but the mass expectation being projected onto them. Society marvels this time in a woman’s life and recognizes it as a sacred rite of passage. It’s considered one of the most important processes and transitions in a woman’s’ life and in an entire family’s life. This segment explores some of the nuances, complexities and difficulties involved in the decision women face, whether or not they planned to be pregnant or not and the difficulties many women go through, who had no “plans” to have a child. Laura Uplinger has spent 47 years as a volunteer- championing women to explore the power that nature gave them during pregnancy. She was educated at The University of Sorbonne and received her degree in Paris in applied psychology. She’s  fluent in French, Spanish, English and Portuguese. Laura has made contributions spanning the globe in Pre and Pari Natal Education. She spent 12 years on the Board of Directors of APPPAH and is on the Board of Directors of OMAEP.  She currently is the Vice President of The Brazilian Association for Pre- Natal Education. While she has many commitments in this area, she also teaches Primal Health at the University in the south of Chile. And, last but not least, as if the above is not enough, she’s the liaison between The Brazilian Network for The Humanization of Childbirth and The National Organization of Prenatal Education. Don’t miss this Special. Share it with your friends and associates.