It is common in our system for a doctor or midwife to recommend that a woman's water (amniotic sac) be artificially broken during labor if it hasn't broken on its own. The idea is that it will quicken the labor and cause the baby to be born faster. Often, women will even be erroneously and unethically promised this. This procedure is technically termed an amniotomy. Sometimes it's also referred to as AROM (artificial rupture of membranes), "rupturing her", or "breaking her wa

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