Birthrights Awareness Day 2026

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The first Birthrights Day (26 September) is being launched to shine a light on women and birthing peoples' basic human rights in maternity care with the slogan - Your body. Your birth. Your rights. The date — 26 September — has been chosen by the charity Birthrights because it is the most common day to be born in England and Wales, with Office for National Statistics analysis showing an average of around 2,000 births on that date, compared with around 1,800 if births were evenly distributed across the year for other dates.

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00:14when you're pregnant giving birth or receiving postnatal care you have rights the right to be

00:21listened to the right to clear information the right to make informed decisions about your body

00:28and your care you have the right to accept or say no to any treatment that you are offered the

00:36right

00:36to be treated with dignity and respect and the right to receive care without discrimination but

00:43too many women and birthing people don't know they have these rights or feel unable to speak up birth

00:49rights is here to champion the fundamental rights of women and birthing people through pregnancy and

00:55birth because everyone deserves to be heard respected and supported your body your birth your rights

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