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By Maya Oppenheim
Pregnancy can be an anxious experience for all women: fears of miscarrying, birth defects, difficult labour and how you’ll cope are natural when you’re carrying a child. If you’re pregnant in prison, however, natural anxieties can become terrifying. What happens if you can’t get proper healthcare? What happens if you’re not let out of your cell when your waters break? What happens if you miscarry and no one knows what to do?
Being pregnant in prison comes with myriad fears...
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