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Topic: midwives

Steel engraving of Midwife bathing newborn after birth (Getty Images/Grafissimo)

The witchy roots of midwifery

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Allow midwives to save lives in Alabama

Stephanie Mitchell, Avital Norman Nathman
Shawnee Benton Gibson and Bruce McIntyre III in "Aftershock" (Hulu/Onyx Collective)

What the anti-midwife campaign wrought

Melanie McFarland
(Photos by Piper McDaniel/Narratively))

Piper McDaniel - Narratively
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Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-516343p1.html'>ZouZou</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Wikimedia)

When women's health was witchy

Soraya Chemaly
(Fox/Jordin Althaus)

Mindy Kaling picks on midwives

Willa Paskin
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