The same maternal inequity, from Ecuador to America
“I want my mom.”
I still remember hearing those words from a twelve-year-old pregnant patient during my internship at a public maternity hospital in Quito, Ecuador. She had become pregnant after being sexually abused by a neighbor and came from a low-income community with limited access to education and health care resources. When I met her, she was alone in a hospital bed during labor, crying and asking for her mother …
The same maternal inequity, from Ecuador to America
