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Maternity units are closing across America, forcing expectant mothers to hit the road

Maternity units are closing across America, forcing expectant mothers to hit the road
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Maternity units are closing across America, forcing expectant mothers to hit the road

Data released last fall shows that more than 2.2 million women of childbearing age across 1,119 U.S. counties are living in "maternity care deserts."

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Maternity units are closing across America, forcing expectant mothers to hit the road

In picturesque Bonner County, Idaho, Leandra Wright, 40, is pregnant with her seventh child.

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Maternity units are closing across America, forcing expectant mothers to hit the road

In picturesque Bonner County, Idaho, Leandra Wright, 40, is pregnant with her seventh child.

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Rural hospitals close maternity units

Three days before Christmas, the only hospital in this remote city on the Yakama Indian Reservation abruptly closed its maternity unit without consulting the community, the doctors who delivered babies there or even its own board.

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