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Podcast: America Dissected
Episode: If childbirth isn’t an illness, why does it happen in hospitals?
Description: Is a hospital the best place for childbirth? That question is driving a revolution in birthing, focused on creating outpatient birth centers. This National Birth Center Week, Abdul reflects on the birth experience — and who it leaves behind. Then he sits down with the co-founder and CEO of the birth center Birth Detroit Leseliey Welch to talk about why birth centers are a key public health intervention against racial inequities in maternal and infant mortality — and her fight to expand them.This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Amer...