364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics
The Realignment
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The Opposition to Midwifery in Alabama
I'm just struggling to understand what the objection is given those different challenges and priorities. Why a state like Alabama would be hostile or potentially hostile to midwifery? I think it really kind of stretches for back to that history and that sense of midwives as sort of you know quote unquote rogue practitioners. They think that out of hospital birth is too unsafe. And so I think that's sort of my best answer of like why, because it is such an incredible and underutilized midwife resource.
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