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New York state overrules a hospital policy saying mothers must give birth without their partners (CNN)

Days after a hospital system said it wouldn’t allow women to have visitors during childbirth, New York state quashed that policy.

Last week, NewYork-Presbyterian health care system made the “very difficult decision” to ban such visitors, including the mothers’ partners, to try to curb the spread of coronavirus.

But on Saturday, state officials announced plans for an executive order to allow women to have one visitor…

To read the entire article from CNN, click https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/health/new-york-hospital-childbirth-policy-overturned/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_content=2020-03-29T23%3A25%3A01&utm_term=link&fbclid=IwAR091krQN74mcGzZvn-19r-oHFd2WplOtEkwmtcsbALQ7whT-yBsMpPkKGo