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Why The Bronx Has No Birth Center

OBGYN Carla M Williams poses for a portrait in front of her Norwood, Bronx reproductive health clinic.

Eight years after New York passed a law allowing midwives to open childbirth facilities, the Bronx, the borough with the city’s worst maternal mortality and morbidity rates, lacks any birth center at all.  “Birthing centers exist in other parts of the city. And guess what? They work,” Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said in her […]

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