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Kat Timpf quickly went from childbirth to a double mastectomy after learning she had cancer the same day she welcomed her son.

It's not because women have, en masse, given up and submitted to forced childbirth.

These cuts come at a time when reproductive rights are being restricted, forcing more women to carry pregnancies to term while simultaneously weakening the health care infrastructure essential for safe childbirth and postpartum care.

Maternal mental health is the primary complication associated with childbirth and one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the United States, which will make the consequences even more severe.

Samar, still recovering from childbirth, and her surviving son soon joined a vast wave of displacement that would sweep up nearly all of Gaza’s more than 2 million people.