{"title":"Home Birth and the Maternity Outcomes Emergency: Attending to Race and Gender in Childbirth","authors":"Susan Stark","doi":"10.3138/IJFAB-14.1.01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Childbirth in the United States is in crisis. This is especially true for Black and brown mothers. This childbirth emergency constitutes a failure of the social contract: because society has failed to provide minimally decent care for all birthing mothers, but especially for Black and brown mothers, it is necessary to allow mothers to choose home birth. I amplify the voices of Black and brown scholars and midwives to defend home birth, and I argue that home birth is safe and empowering and that it is rational for those who desire it to choose it.","PeriodicalId":13383,"journal":{"name":"IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics","volume":"232 1","pages":"18 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/IJFAB-14.1.01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Childbirth in the United States is in crisis. This is especially true for Black and brown mothers. This childbirth emergency constitutes a failure of the social contract: because society has failed to provide minimally decent care for all birthing mothers, but especially for Black and brown mothers, it is necessary to allow mothers to choose home birth. I amplify the voices of Black and brown scholars and midwives to defend home birth, and I argue that home birth is safe and empowering and that it is rational for those who desire it to choose it.