A call for critical midwifery studies: Confronting systemic injustice in sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn care
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Date
2022
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Wiley
Abstract
ystemic injustice is a threat to sexual, reproductive, ma-
ternal, and newborn (SRMN) health. The effects of this
injustice are reflected in the high maternal and neonatal
morbidity and mortality rates in former colonized coun-
tries of the Global South, in marginalized communities of
the Global North, and in underprivileged classes around
the world. 1 Current research, clinical guidance, and global
health politics all point to an inadequate response to in-
justice on the part of SRMN care systems. Consider, for instance, four examples of ongoing injustices globally: the
lack of workforce to meet SRMN, 2 the lack of access to
safe abortion, 3 the “ethnic”, “racial”, and socioeconomic
disparities present in maternal and newborn outcomes
during the Covid-19 pandemic,4,5 and the severity and
persistence of obstetric violence and obstetric racism.
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critical midwifery studies, reproductive