Giving birth to a child is the most important event in the life of every woman. That is why it is necessary to pay attention to every detail of this significant process, to take into account all the aspects of the procedure and hope for the better. However, every pregnant woman wants to be sure that her labors will be successful and everything will be all right. It is that point on which American doctors accentuate in their speeches. There are few problems which can experience a pregnant woman when she is preparing for one of the most significant moments in her life. Nevertheless, the real situations and facts support the idea that the health care system of the USA is not perfect, and there are many controversial questions which require their immediate solutions. This opinion can be considered as a decisive one for the analysis of Marsden Wagner’s Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First in which the author provides the detailed examination of the most typical and influential problems of the maternity and health care system in the USA. In his book, Marsden Wagner focuses on such problematic questions as the state of the hospitals in the USA, the aspects of the American maternity care system, difficulties in providing the effective care for mothers and their babies. The most controversial question is about the fact that the USA health care system provides the most expensive care services for pregnant women in the world, but the level of the quality of these services does not follow the principles of the highest standards which are stated in the programs about the health care system in the country. Moreover, the author pays attention to the issues of midwifery and the women’s safety in hospitals. There can also be different visions of the question of the main goal of the book. Angelo P. Giardino accentuates that the author of the book “specifically states that the purpose of the book is to further an understanding of problems in the system with an eye toward ultimately moving beyond defining the issues and toward suggesting solutions” (Giardino 38). Moreover, the most interesting detail of the work is the high level of the criticism expressed in the book. Thus, Marsden Wagner is strict about the role of physicians in the life of a pregnant woman. “Physicians, however, will find the book a difficult read because of the level of criticism lobbed at their profession” (Giardino 39). One more important detail which also requires the further investigation is the point that Wagner uses the allusion to the physicians as “priests” of a cult of science runs counter to that view” (Giardino 39). Marsden Wagner openly and rather sarcastically discusses the problems of the health care system in the USA. Nevertheless, why can this book be useful for pregnant women who face the problem of following the principles of the modern maturity care system in the USA? “Examining the structure of obstetrical care more thoroughly than most books about childbirth, it helps readers understand why present maternity care services are often unsatisfactory, why choices are limited, and why women’s basic human rights ignored or abused” (Pincus 185). In his book, Marsden Wagner also concentrat