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364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics

The Realignment

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The Importance of Pregnancy Childbirth in the American Political Scene

Rebecca Grant: I would not have expected pregnancy childbirth to be at the center of the American political scene, but also just our broader social cultural discussions. Rates of auto hospital birth have really shot up over the past five or six years or so, in part kind of spurred by COVID. So I think that it does feel like things are changing and that's certainly connected to politics as well because there are laws around kind of where midwives can practice.

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