Muslim Advocates Ramp Up the Fight for Reproductive Justice
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On a family visit to Pakistan in 2000, Bursha Munifasa, then 23, discovered she was pregnant. She sat with her husband in their parked car after an ultrasound, staring at her medical report, unable to decipher what “pregnancy positive” meant. No one had said a word about pregnancy during her appointment. “I was so naive,” she recalls, sitting in her home in the Chicago suburbs where she’s…