What's "culturally appropriate" health care? Voodoo priestesses and medicine men?
What's "culturally appropriate" health care? Voodoo priestesses and medicine men?
They were trying to say nicely that it's hard to persuade Quonesha who spends her pregnancy drinking and smoking crack, and Imelda who spends her last month hiking across the desert so she can deliver an anchor baby here, that their choices may be leading to the deaths of their babies. You can't get good prenatal care that will save babies to mothers who are either drugged up or aren't even in the US at the time of conception, and in either case aren't eating properly or taking prenatal vitamins and getting ultrasounds.
We have got the best health care in the world here. If that were not the case, then rich Saudis and Englishmen wouldn't be coming here for medical care when they get cancer. Even poor people in this country have access to good FREE health care (if they choose to live near civilization). But you can't hold a gun to someone's head and force him to get good health care.