Word: childbirth
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...Today, the relatively isolated and snowbound Minami Uonuma City is old and emptying out; the cavernous bullet train station is literally empty on the day I visit. The hospital stopped offering childbirth services in 2002, and the local economy is on life support. "The government's finances are deficit-ridden," says Saito. "We're under great pressure to control spending...
...still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective of different characters, and then chooses to leave things in the stylistically most awkward of places: the defensive hands of the bored reader. Constance Barton is haunted by the fear of death through childbirth, pursued by visions of ghosts and demons coming to harm her 4-year-old daughter, Angelica. Blaming her husband’s malignant intentions, she turns to the advice of a neighborhood spiritualist. The ghost story is told first from the perspective of Constance, then of spiritualist (and proto-feminist...
...name may be the only thing his birth mother left to him. It is standard practice for Vietnamese hospitals to require women in labor to provide proposed names for the child, one for a boy and a second for a girl, in case the mother dies in childbirth. The practice is a legacy of the hard years of famine and poverty after the war when women more often died in childbirth...
...growth in the movement has raised other alarms with pro-choice groups. They point out that while counselors at crisis pregnancy centers lay out the physical and psychological risks associated with abortion, they don't mention that the risk of death in childbirth is 12 times as high and that many women who get abortions experience only relief. Both sides talk about the importance of complete information and informed consent, then argue over what that means. Each side challenges the other's motives: pro-life activists say abortionists are in business for the money and don't care about women...
...classify that encounter says a lot about your politics: one person's loving support is another's emotional pressure. "They talk about the joys of childbirth, which can certainly be a joy," says Melissa Reed, executive director of NARAL's North Carolina chapter, "but they can make a woman feel very intimidated about making any other choice in her life." Wood insists that at her center counselors are trained not to push. "We don't hand out baby booties to everyone with a positive pregnancy test," she says. "We don't do emotional blackmail." And her center at least continues...