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Driving 100 miles in labor; giving birth in the ER: Fears rise as 3 maternity units prepare to close in Alabama

By NBC News  
   October 16, 2023

By the end of the month, two Alabama hospitals will stop delivering babies. A third will follow suit a few weeks later. That will leave two counties — Shelby and Monroe — without any birthing hospitals, and strip a predominantly Black neighborhood in Birmingham of a sought-after maternity unit.

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