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Podcast: Slate Gender and Society
Episode: Hear Me Out: Childbirth Should Be Free
Description: On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… the right to life and socialized healthcare walk into a delivery room.Writer and journalist Liz Bruenig joins Celeste to discuss her vision for a United States where childbirth costs nothing. In a nation with skyrocketing healthcare costs, attacks on reproductive rights, and potential rollbacks on preventive care, we tell birthing people that not only do they have to give birth — they have to court financial ruin in order to do it. Liz says it doesn’t have to be this way… and...