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America Dissected

If childbirth isn’t an illness, why does it happen in hospitals?

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Marguerite Casey Foundation: Sign up for their new Summer School program at CaseyGrants.org/SummerSchool. Liquid I.V.: Turn your ordinary water into extraordinary hydration with Liquid I.V.® Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V.® when you go to liquidiv.com and use code DISSECT at checkout. Lumen: If you want to take the next step in improving your health, visit go.lumen.me/AD for 15% off your purchase. Rhone: Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use AD to save 20% at https://www.rhone.com/AD.

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0:00.0

America Disected is brought to you by Marguer Casey Foundation.

0:02.8

Let's be honest. While some folks worry about the threat of fascism in the United States,

0:06.8

any are already living it. Across the country, organizers are being labeled for fighting for the

0:11.1

sanctity of life in Palestine, the health of our planet

0:13.7

at Standing Rock, and against the expansion of the prison industrial complex at Cop City.

0:18.5

The stakes could not be higher, and those who care about freedom, especially funders, need to understand the history of how we got here and the role we can play in helping fuel multiracial coalitions that can fight the forces of fascism.

0:30.0

Be part of the solution. Register now to join Marguer Casey Foundation's summer school,

0:35.0

building a people and planet-centered future.

0:37.0

Together, summer school participants will hear from visionary organizers,

0:41.0

activist scholars, and experts and get political education that has the power to spark the solidarity

0:46.4

essential for creating a future focused on the well-being of people and the planet.

0:50.4

Sign up today to join Marguerite Casey Foundation summer school at Casey grants.

0:54.0

org slash Summer School that CAS E Y G R A N T S.org slash Summer School. A new study finds that black women are more likely to get unnecessary C sections, partly because of incentives to fill

1:14.9

operating rooms. A new survey finds that one in six adults has turned to an AI chapar with their health

1:20.4

questions. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

1:22.8

spar over the Affordable Care Act

1:24.4

at what looks to be their only televised debate.

1:27.0

This is America Disected.

1:28.2

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alsayor. Hospitals are places we go when we're

1:35.0

when we're sick, when we require intensive medical care or surgery.

1:41.0

They're not places we go when we're healthy, except when it comes to childbirth.

1:45.2

And that means that most of us born in high-income countries were probably born in one. But if you think about it,

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