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Illegal midwives and border babies: The determined fight for home birth in Alabama

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More Ashley Loper, 27, is in the throes of labor. She’s on her hands and knees, naked, alternately quiet and screaming expletives, on a bed in a room in a rented house in southern Mississippi. Classical best-ofs — Pachelbel’s “Canon,” Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” — play softly from an iPhone. A forest of flickering white pillar candles stretches out on the headboard behind her, and the father-to-be, Joseph, a kind-faced 28-year-old commercial fisherman, stands anxiously alongside the bed, awaiting the arrival of what will be the couple’s third child. Loper flips onto her back, and her doula places a cool blue washcloth on her sweaty pink forehead. “Goddammit! I can’t do it!” she...

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