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Policies to Assist Pregnant Women and Children Should Include a Complete Assessment of the Realities of Women's Lives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Laura R. Woliver*
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University of South Carolina, USA
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Symposium: Pregnancy and Substance Abuse
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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