Indigenous doulas lead the fight for reproductive care access gap in Guam

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On the day Livia Marati was due to give birth, Typhoon Mawar barreled toward Guam. Anyone more than 36 weeks pregnant was instructed by the governor’s office to make their way to the island’s only hospital with their own linens and drinking water. Family members had to stay behind.

“On Guam, we had Suruhano healers — people who knew how to work with plant medicine for pregnant bodies and babies,” Merino said. “After World War II, our island was heavily militarized, and healers and midwives were regulated or outlawed by the military government.” Merino explained that birthing only became a medicalized process within recent decades.

 

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