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Lucille Roybal-Allard: “Despite World Health Organization recommendations to eliminate unnecessary childbirth interventions, the U.S. continues…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
Despite World Health Organization recommendations to eliminate unnecessary childbirth interventions, the U.S. continues to have some of the highest Cesarean birth and induction rates.
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Lucille Roybal-Allard
California

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Critiques high rates of unnecessary childbirth interventions in the U.S.

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