Oppose HB 4606: New Moms Need Community, Not Assessment

By David E Smith 7 min read

It used to be that babies were brought into the world within a community. If you were expecting, you would go through your pregnancy not only alongside other pregnant women in your family or clan, but also attended to by older, more experienced women. These practices remain in some cultures, especially in the global South, but for a long list of reasons, those days are all but gone in the developed world.

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