now on bbc news, our world a mother s choice: birth in the balkans. amira is fighting for the right to have a home birth. women in the balkan region are routinely exposed to brutal treatment in hospital during pregnancy and childbirth, and they are demanding change. the united nations has uncovered the scale of the abuse. violence against women in childbirth is so normalised that it is not yet considered violence against women. to protect herself, amira has hired a foreign midwife, who s taking a risk to help her
over time. i m going to ask that we put up a chart that shows gallup polling going back to 1956. the top line is people who think abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, the middle line legal under any circumstances, and the gray line illegal in all circumstances. what do you say about this? personally i oppose abortion, but i think it should be through legal channels. when you get to the early stage of pregnancy, there it becomes quite difficult and the mother s choice becomes more prominent
successfully adopted by his american father. this is after they picked me up from the airport and brought me home. i felt very lucky and very fortunate. it was really hard for him to find me, so that s another way i m fortunate. reporter: leon s mother gave up rights to him as a baby, but at the age of 3, his father tracked him down in a children s home and flew him to the united states. he still bears the scars of his mother s choice. there is always kind of like a void, and that void will always be there because i never got to meet her. i know as a kid it really hurt me when she left. because i have a distant memory of standing in the corner of a crib crying real hard. i always said that my son reporter: leon s questions remain, did she want to give him up or was she forced? many years later he found out where his mother was.
parents has defined their lives. yet we weren t black. as a teenager, i did question who was i? who am i? it s like a missing piece. reporter: new research for the brook britain s brown babies only found one child successfully adopted by his american father. this is after their picked me up from the airport and brought me home. i felt very lucky and very fortunate. it was really hard for them to find me. so, that s another unfortunate. leon s mother gave up rights to him as a baby, but at the age of 3, his father tracked him down in a children s home and flew him to the united states. he still bears the scars of his mother s choice. there s always kind of like a void. and that void will always be there because i never got to meet her. i know as a kid it really hurt me when she left because i have a distant memory of standing in
defined their lives. we weren t allowed to be white, and yet we weren t black. as a teenager, i did question, who was i. it s like a missing piece. new research for the book britain s brown babies has only found one child successfully adopted by his american father. this is after they picked me up from the airport and brought me home. i felt very lucky and very fortunate. leon s mother gave up rights to him as a baby. at the age of 3, his father tracked him down in a children s home and flew him to the united states. he still bares the scars of his mother s choice. there s always a void. and that void will always be there. as a kid, it hurt me when she left. because i have a distant memory of standing in the corner of a