Pregnant women’s care too often affected by race

Pregnant Women’s Care Too Often Affected by Race

Anika Crenshaw planned on a vaginal birth for her second child, as she had done with her daughter a few years earlier. But soon after she arrived at the hospital in 1998, she began experiencing some light bleeding, and a nurse entered the room with a razor and a catheter and told Crenshaw she was about…Explanations of the immigration crisis unfolding in Texas fall roughly into two categories: violence and poverty in Central America have prompted tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and seek illegal entry into the United States via Mexico, or the Obama administration is to blame for neglecting the border and giving the impression that children and youth entering the country illegally will not be deported.

The first view is, of course, the one espoused by the administration. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Senate Judiciary Committee as much last week: “Violence, poverty—I believe that is principally what is motivating the situation.”

Johnson has a point. Most of those apprehended at the border have traveled from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. According to U.S. Border Patrol stats, the