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The Inner Ring of Natural Birth Elitism

When the method of giving birth becomes the measure of a mother's worth

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Rachael Killackey
Oct 03, 2024
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“A woman is capable of more sustained sacrifice than man. Man is more apt to be the hero in one great, passionate outburst of courage. But a woman is heroic through the years, months, and even seconds of daily life, the very repetition of her toils giving them the semblance of the commonplace. Not only her days but her nights, not only her mind, but her…

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