Jennifer Brunner on pregnancy and childbirth

With Mothers' Day coming up this Sunday, Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner took the time to write a nice piece for the blog Momocrats: Raising the Next Generation of Blue. In it, she reflects on the obstacles way too many women face in getting the prenatal and delivery care they need to deliver health babies and stay healthy themselves. She gives some examples from her own life to make the issue more immediate — I was certainly shocked to learn that her oldest daughter weighed in at 10 lb, 4 oz!

This may not be THE hot issue right now (although the discussion over health-care access certainly includes it), but we should should stockpile this column as ammo. If she turns out to be our Senate candidate, it could prove useful when Rob Portman starts talking about "values" and being "pro-life," to remind voters that being pro-life means a lot more than being against abortion.