American Association of Birth Centers

The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) is a non-profit membership organization founded by Childbirth Connection (formerly the Maternity Center Association). The American Association of Birth Centers promotes and supports birth centers as a means to uphold the rights of healthy women and their families, in all communities, to birth their children in an environment which is safe, sensitive and cost effective with minimal intervention. For more than 30 years, the American Association of Birth Centers has been the nation's most comprehensive resource on birth centers.