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The tragedy of maternal deaths in the US
As the question looms about whether or not women in this country will continue to have the right to decide when and if they have children, we thought it important to look at the unequal care and consideration that pregnant women in this country receive. Perhaps no other problem is more emblematic of intersectionality – what the Oxford Dictionary defines as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage” – than maternal health care in the richest country in the world. So here goes.
Our bodies are not public property
This week, we are focusing on reproductive rights, so clearly under attack right now while headspinning misinformation is being circulated about the place of abortion in our history and in the collective health of women.