Maybe you’ve already heard about Ricki Lake’s “awesome” vagina — she included the waterbirth of her second child in the fantastic documentary The Business of Being Born (Lake produced it, Abby Epstein directed it). But now, six months after the film’s premiere, on the other side of the globe, Lake’s movie is being taken a bit more seriously: it’s being likened to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth.

With an election weeks away, Australia’s What Women Want party is calling for maternity care reform to be as big of an issue as global warming, and party leaders have enlisted Ms. Lake as their celebrity spokeswoman. Like in the U.S., nearly a third of Australian women give birth by major surgery, and the government is not promoting home birth as an alternative. Lake says she’s calling for more choice.

Want to see the film? Click here for a list of sneak previews being held around the country. I’ll be speaking at one in Des Moines tomorrow, November 6.