UNITED KINGDOM — British author Elinor Cleghorn published her new book "A Woman's Work" this month in the UK. The book explores the impact of mothers throughout history.

The book examines historical figures who placed motherhood at the center of political and social change. Mary Wollstonecraft, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Johnnie Tillmon are among the individuals whose work placed motherhood at the heart of political and social change.

Since antiquity, midwives and maternity caregivers have fought for birthing people and mothers to be believed, trusted, supported, and respected. Many writers and artists have made motherhood a subject of serious inquiry and a source of creativity over the last 50 years.

Cleghorn has been a mother for 18 years. When she became pregnant for the first time, she had the right to choose whether to continue her pregnancy. After she decided to become a mother, her health needs and those of her potential child were met by the UK's National Health Service.

Cleghorn gave birth to her eldest son in a hospital with the help of informed and experienced midwives. Her second son was born at home after a fast and risky labor. Cleghorn and her second son were cared for in an NHS maternity ward for the first 10 days of his life.

"I am here, I am yours," Cleghorn wrote in the book.