This post at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is amazing and awesome and horrible, all at once. Romance author Pamela Clare wrote a book about female prison inmates giving birth. THEN she wrote a law to ban the practice of shackling these women to their beds while they give birth. So far, her law has been passed in twelve states.
Honestly.
Marlene Dotterer 
That’s astounding. Thanks for sharing this, Marlene.