George Carlin

NEW YORK — Ricki Lake is firing back at physicians groups that have singled her out for bringing attention to at-home childbirth.

The 39-year-old former talk-show host is named in a recent statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that says the home is not the safest setting for having a baby.

In her film “The Business of Being Born,” a documentary about the maternity care system that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Lake is shown giving birth in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment to her second son, Owen, who turns 7 on Wednesday.

“There’s a lot of provocative things that are said in the film,” Lake said, “but I think it’s very clear that we need doctors, we need the care and the technology that we have. But we also need to value the process of giving birth normally.”

— From wire reports