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Description: MOTHER’S RIGHT is a conceptual installation and performance piece that addresses the United States' high rates of maternal mortality, postpartum PTSD, and obstetric abuse. Artist Michelle Hartney is sewing 1,200 hospital gowns—one for every mother who died in childbirth in America in 2013. The fabric will be hand silk-screened to look like hospital-gown fabric, but the designs are composed of tiny drawings she created of the plant derivatives of the drugs that have been used on laboring wome
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