Motherwhit

 Word Count: 264 words

    This story from the beginning is different from our other stories because Onnie Lee Logan decides that her job will be a midwife as she is passionate about helping woman in their most vulnerable, difficult, and important moment of their lives. Her life of being a midwife is around 1984, she was a black woman who knew she could step up to share her knowledge with woman who need her help. 

    Her mother and grandmother, also midwives, inspired her career's work and passion. She was able to help poor, black mothers receive access to great care, as they deserve the same treatment, knowledge, and help as the rest of America. Onnie was eventually stripped of her midwife license, which is extremely harsh considering this was her entire life, but was told she was no longer needed.

    "Nothing in my life has ever made me feel so little," Onnie says when recounting the letter she received in the mail telling her her midwife services were no longer needed. She must have experienced numerous hardships in her life living in Alabama as a black woman, born in 1910. She wanted to help all people, and I am sure throughout her life she faced racism significantly. She was one of the last "granny midwives" in Alabama, showing that this was her passion and she would not stop unless she was physically unable, or was physically stopped. I love that she believed God gave her this ability to take care of birthing mothers, and it wasn't from simply learning in class and taking after her mother and grandmother.