{"id":961,"date":"2020-05-20T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=961"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:09:08","slug":"delivering-difficult-truths-what-coronavirus-reveals-about-giving-birth-in-america","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/delivering-difficult-truths-what-coronavirus-reveals-about-giving-birth-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering difficult truths: What coronavirus reveals about giving birth in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_963\" style=\"width: 1480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-963\" class=\"size-full wp-image-963 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Giving-birth-in-america.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1470\" height=\"998\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Giving-birth-in-america.png 1470w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Giving-birth-in-america-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Giving-birth-in-america-1024x695.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Giving-birth-in-america-768x521.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1470px) 100vw, 1470px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1470px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1470\/998;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from NY Daily News<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-oped-delivering-difficult-truths-20200520-mkklm3kgbbbetnrgxmdor3iljq-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Daily News<\/a>, Adrienne describes the terror women are facing every day in making difficult decisions around their pregnancies. Even though midwives have always been at the center of providing great care, COVID-19 has amplified the importance of midwives drastically. Adrienne states, \u201cCOVID-19 had done what no amount of data, research, appeals to empathy and calls for unity could accomplish: It vaporized the barriers of race, culture and socio-economics for women who were just desperate to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":962,"template":"","publication_category":[46,48],"publication_theme":[57,64,66],"class_list":["post-961","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-features","publication_category-news-piece","publication_theme-health","publication_theme-maternal-health","publication_theme-women-and-girls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}