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Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, Assistant Professor of Development Studies, Huron University College, Western University

For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, ‘reproduction is like a death sentence’

On May 9, Lourdia Jean-Pierre, a 32-year-old Haitian migrant woman, died after giving birth in her rural home in El Ceibo, Dominican Republic. The cause of death was a postpartum hemorrhage, according to a news report in The Haitian Times.

Despite needing medical attention, Jean-Pierre was reportedly afraid to go to the hospital. Why? She feared being deported.

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