birthing politics
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America is overspending and under-serving women and families. The problem is not access to care; it is the care itself.
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For indigenous women in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru, giving birth at health care facilities, in the presence of strangers and lying down, is unbearable. New standards in health care delivery better respect their rights and traditions.
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