âPieces of a Womanâ Has Midwives Talking About That Birth Scene
Vanessa Kirbyâs Oscar-nominated performance involves an extended sequence that these experts say gets some things right â and a few wrong.
Molly Parker as a midwife and Vanessa Kirby as a woman going into labor in âPieces of a Woman.âCredit.Benjamin Loeb/Netflix
April 14, 2021, 3:52 p.m. ET
In the movies, birth is usually an emergency. It begins with the womanâs water breaking, at the worst possible moment. She appears to be barely in labor, and yet she is rushed, through gridlock traffic, to the hospital. There she becomes angry, and the pain is her husbandâs fault. She yells at him, perhaps even injures him, and orders him to get a vasectomy. Then she begs for an epidural, but for some reason, she canât have it. After four minutes of intense screaming, sheâs handed something that looks like the Gerber baby.
PITTSFIELD â The tides have started to turn against nuclear weapons â at least in international law.
Some Western Massachusetts activists want a major Pittsfield employer to take notice after a United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons went into effect Friday in several countries.
Dressed in white outfits resembling hazmat suits, about 15 activists walked to the door of General Dynamicsâ Pittsfield workplace to leave a letter with news of the treaty.
On Friday, the day that the international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect, activists marched toward General Dynamics in Pittsfield, urging it and other U.S. companies with military contracts to cease their production of nuclear weapons. Many signs and security guards were posted around the companyâs buildings on Plastics Ave. in Pittsfield in anticipation of the protesters, and the Pittsfield Police were on hand to ensure the entrance was kept clear.
The U.S. Navy has increased by $43.2 million its contract with General Dynamics Mission Systems for work on ballistic missile submarines. The work will take place mostly at the companyâs Pittsfield facility. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
PITTSFIELD â Advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons will mark the debut of a U.N.-backed treaty with a protest Friday morning at General Dynamics in Pittsfield.
At 9 a.m., activists say they will deliver a letter to General Dynamics officials at 100 Plastics Ave. notifying them that the nuclear weapons industry faces pushback from nations that have ratified whatâs known as the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.