Embracing women to help them overcome ‘common’ obstetric violence
Mothers’ movement Embrace is helping women expose this form as violence as gender-based
06 December 2021 - 19:24
A 27-year-old woman says she was told to stop being dramatic when she was forced to give birth to her baby boy with her pants on because a nurse refused to help her...
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