{"id":3979,"date":"2026-08-02T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:08:59","slug":"as-maternity-wards-close-community-outrage-rises-in-key-battleground-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/as-maternity-wards-close-community-outrage-rises-in-key-battleground-states\/","title":{"rendered":"As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marchofdimes.org\/maternity-care-deserts-report\">2.3 million American women of childbearing age live in a county where there is no place to give birth<\/a>, according to the March of Dimes, a nonprofit advocacy group that works to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies. Among rank-and-file voters, there is no consensus about who is ultimately responsible for the series of public policy decisions that created this reality.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2026\/07\/maternity-ward-closures-battleground-states\/\">19th News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 2.3 million American women of childbearing age live in a county where there is no place to give birth, according to the March of Dimes, a nonprofit advocacy group that works to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies. Among rank-and-file voters, there is no consensus about who is ultimately responsible for the series &#8230; <a title=\"As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground states\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/as-maternity-wards-close-community-outrage-rises-in-key-battleground-states\/\" aria-label=\"More on As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground states\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[607,99,143],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cutting-funding","tag-maternity-deserts","tag-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}