Maternity is the young woman’s battlefield,” wrote Mary Breckinridge in 1927. “It is more dangerous, more painful, more mutilating than war, and as inexorable as all the laws of God.” Breckinridge’s theater of operations was Leslie County, Ky., deep in the heart of the Cumberland Mountains. There were no paved roads in the county then, …
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