Yesterday was International Women’s day (…yay… we get a day…) and a birth story I read online triggered my 2 a.m. brain squirrels into frantic activity. The birth story was very typical, induction of labor that lead to cesarean section. The high cesarean rate in the United States, whether by design or enculturation, serves as both a reinforcement of the “woman as vessel” meme and as a fundamental engine of women’s disempowerment.
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