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Learn about the emotional wounds and psychological effects on maternal mental health when women's autonomy in childbirth is eliminated by the courts.

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"The guards treated me like I was less than nothing," Tiffany McElroy said in a statement Tiffany McElroy In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, Tiffany McElroy alleges that when she went into labor at ...