Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem
in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST
in the industrialized
world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities
in the way
women of color and poor
women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores
than so many
other countries, and
in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.