On Thursday, midwives in Argentina and a number of activists chose an unusual way to protest against the nation’s government to restrict home births. According to reports, the midwives bared their breast in front of the health ministry. The women were demanding their right to give birth to babies at home.

As per the reports, more than one dozen protestors bared their brightly painted breasts along a busy Buenos Aires street. In addition, they were holding signs where they were asking current minister of health of Argentina, Daniel Gollan, to allow them the right to choose where and how to give birth.

According to the midwives, who were protesting, midwives in the country have been excluded from discussions of the policymakers on new regulations for their profession. They said that it is important to protect their rights unless the new regulations will limit their activities and could even ban home births.

A 29-year-old protestor, Eugenia Gimenez, painted a message ‘I gave birth at a home’ on her back. Gimenez had nursed her four-month-old kid as she walked the picket line. Doctor Ana Paula Fagioli backed the protest by midwives in Argentine. Fagioli said, “Hospitals have become torture chambers for pregnant women who spend hours connected to tubes and under medication to induce birth”.

The protest was supported by midwives, pregnant women and doctors, who were in favor of home births, a practice that has been increasing in the country and in other parts of the world.

While talking about the protest, the ministry said it has been working on the new regulations that would allow home births in the nations to continue in safe conditions.