Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2023
They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. The midwife, well known as a healer in Black communities, came to the house and “caught the baby.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.
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