Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
Maternal mortality in the US is 23.8 deaths per 100,000 births, far outstripping other “Western” countries. France, the next highest, has 8.7 per 100,000. New Zealand has 1.7.
Look for more women to die because of the fundamentalist/fascist SCOTUS decision yesterday. See: Poland, Ireland, El Salvador.
We don’t have separation of church and state. We are now a Catholic country. Unbelievable that rights are being taking away. We are behind the old-school Catholic countries like Ireland! No child should be punishment for having sex. Every child deserves to be wanted from conception. Parenthood is too hard and definitely not supported in this country – which it is in other first world countries. Forcing a woman or young person to be pregnant is unconscionable.
Backyard and Beyond 
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