A Fairfax police officer walks out of Democratic U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's district office after a person wielding a baseball bat attacked two of his staff members inside, sending them to the hospital with non-life threating injuries in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

A Fairfax police officer talks on the phone outside of Democratic U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's district office after a person wielding a baseball bat attacked two of his staff members inside, sending them to the hospital with non-life threating injuries in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

A Fairfax police officer walks into Democratic U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's district office as an investigation continues after a person wielding a baseball bat attacked two of his staff members inside, sending them to the hospital with non-life threating injuries in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Fiarfax police cruisers sit outside Democratic U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's district office after a person wielding a baseball bat attacked two of his staff members, sending them to the hospital with non-life threating injuries in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

A police cruiser sits outside Democratic U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's district office after a person wielding a baseball bat attacked two of his staff members, sending them to the hospital with non-life threating injuries in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Dina El-Dhani, a Palestinian cancer patient who missed her treatment session at a hospital in Jerusalem as Israel has kept its crossings with Gaza closed amid Israel-Gaza fighting, takes help from her uncle as she walks, in Gaza City May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Shana 

Dina El-Dhani, a Palestinian cancer patient who missed her treatment session at a hospital in Jerusalem as Israel has kept its crossings with Gaza closed amid Israel-Gaza fighting, takes help from her uncle to walk down the stairs while heading to a local hospital, in Gaza City May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Shana 

Dina El-Dhani, a Palestinian cancer patient who missed her treatment session at a hospital in Jerusalem as Israel has kept its crossings with Gaza closed amid Israel-Gaza fighting, displays on her mobile phone a picture of her while undergoing treatment, in Gaza City May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Shana 

Dina El-Dhani, a Palestinian cancer patient who missed her treatment session at a hospital in Jerusalem as Israel has kept its crossings with Gaza closed amid Israel-Gaza fighting, displays her medications, in Gaza City May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Shana 

Dina El-Dhani, a Palestinian cancer patient who missed her treatment session at a hospital in Jerusalem as Israel has kept its crossings with Gaza closed amid Israel-Gaza fighting, looks on as she poses for a picture, in Gaza City May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Fadi Shana TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Holistic doula Ciara Clark, 34, and her husband Anthony Clark, a 38-year-old VIP associate for a sports betting company, prepare Evan, their crying newborn, to be weighed in Toms River, New Jersey, U.S., September 18, 2023. With her own Black doula and mother by her side, Clark had hoped to have her baby at home with no medical assistance at all. She wanted to have a "wild" pregnancy - one that is medically unassisted. After four cesarean sections with her previous pregnancies, Clark said she feared that her birth plan would not be supported by the medical staff. But after a long labor, Clark said she became anxious and decided to go to the hospital, where she gave birth to a healthy son. Clark is not alone in her distrust of medical intervention in the birthing process. Nine Black pregnant women and new mothers Reuters spoke to for this story voiced similar comments. All of the women spoke of feeling unseen and unheard at times through their pregnancy and postpartum period. REUTERS/Joy Malone SEARCH "MALONE MOTHERS DAY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Holistic doula Ciara Clark, 34, looks lovingly at Evan, her sleeping newborn, in Toms River, New Jersey, U.S., September 18, 2022. With her own Black doula and mother by her side, Clark had hoped to have her baby at home with no medical assistance at all. She wanted to have a "wild" pregnancy - one that is medically unassisted. After four cesarean sections with her previous pregnancies, Clark said she feared that her birth plan would not be supported by the medical staff. But after a long labor, Clark said she became anxious and decided to go to the hospital, where she gave birth to a healthy son. Clark is not alone in her distrust of medical intervention in the birthing process. Nine Black pregnant women and new mothers Reuters spoke to for this story voiced similar comments. All of the women spoke of feeling unseen and unheard at times through their pregnancy and postpartum period. REUTERS/Joy Malone SEARCH "MALONE MOTHERS DAY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks through a hall, alongside his staff and security, following the senate’s spring break on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2023. This is the first time McConnell is back at work since being hospitalized from a fall. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT 

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks through a hall, alongside his staff and security, following the senate’s spring break on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2023. This is the first time McConnell is back at work since being hospitalized from a fall. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT 

Staff members walk past the waiting area of the assisted reproductive centre at the Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, which specialises in fertility treatments, in Beijing, China April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang 

Shelest Oleksandr and his wife Vira, who were wounded during Russian drone attacks on a compound of a local lyceum in the town of Rzhyshchiv, are seen in a hospital of the Obukhiv town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey 

Shelest Oleksandr and his wife Vira, who were wounded during Russian drone attacks on a compound of a local lyceum in the town of Rzhyshchiv, are seen in a hospital of the Obukhiv town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey 

A doctor stands next to Shelest Oleksandr and his wife Vira, who were wounded during Russian drone attacks on a compound of a local lyceum in the town of Rzhyshchiv, in a hospital of the Obukhiv town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey 

An ambulance staff walks next to parked ambulances at St George's hospital during British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's visit in London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Stephen Barclay talk to staff in thoracic unit at St George’s Hospital, London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Stephen Barclay talk to staff in thoracic unit at St George’s Hospital, London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Stephen Barclay talk to staff in thoracic unit at St George’s Hospital, London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Stephen Barclay talk to staff in thoracic unit at St George's Hospital, London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talks to staff at St George's hospital in London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talk to staff at St George's hospital in London, Britain March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool 

Staff member of a general hospital looks at the empty patients waiting area during the general strike, in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

Staff members of a general hospital wait near a shuttle ambulance during the general strike, in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

A general hospital's staff member sleeps near an empty medicine distribution waiting area during the general strike, in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte 

Students of medicine, acting as specialist staff, are accompanied by children who came with plush toys to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman 

A student of medicine, acting as specialist staff, is accompanied by a child who came with a plush toy to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman 

A student of medicine, acting as specialist staff, is accompanied by a child who came with a plush toy to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman 

A student of medicine, acting as specialist staff, is accompanied by a child who came with a plush toy to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A student of medicine, acting as specialist staff, is accompanied by a child who came with a plush toy to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman 

A student of medicine, acting as specialist staff, is accompanied by a child who came with a plush toy to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman 

A student of medicine, acting as specialist staff, is accompanied by a child who came with a plush toy to be treated at The Teddy Bear Clinic (Clinique du Nounours), a facility that helps children to cope with their fear of medical examinations, in Brussels, Belgium March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman 

A view through the front window as a wounded Ukrainian service member is transported in an ambulance from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

Paramedic Marjana, an intensive care medic of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), treats a wounded Ukrainian service member in an ambulance, transporting him from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

A wounded Ukrainian service member is transported in an ambulance from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

Paramedic Marjana, an intensive care medic of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), treats a wounded Ukrainian service member with a colleague in an ambulance, transporting him from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

Paramedic Marjana, an intensive care medic of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), prepares an IV shot for a wounded Ukrainian service member in an ambulance, transporting him from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

Paramedic Marjana, an intensive care medic of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), treats a wounded Ukrainian service member in an ambulance, transporting him from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

Paramedic Marjana, an intensive care medic of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), treats a wounded Ukrainian service member in an ambulance, transporting him from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

Paramedic Marjana, an intensive care medic of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), treats a wounded Ukrainian service member in an ambulance, transporting him from a field hospital near the frontline of Bakhmut to a specialist trauma hospital in the city of Kramatorsk, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner 

People stand next to the bodies of the victims outside the state hospital following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Huseyin Hayatsever TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Bodies of the victims are seen outside the state hospital following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Huseyin Hayatsever 

Bodies of the victims are seen outside the state hospital following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Huseyin Hayatsever 

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan Asim Munir and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visit an injured after a suicide blast in a mosque, at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. Prime Minister's Office/Handout via REUTERS/ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. 

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan Asim Munir and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visit an injured, after a suicide blast in a mosque, at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. Prime Minister's Office/Handout via REUTERS/ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to staff member during a visit to the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton-on-Tees, Britain, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Pool 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to staff member during a visit to the University Hospital of North Tees along with British Secretary of State for Health Steve Barclay, in Stockton-on-Tees, Britain, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Pool 

Ambulance staff stand outside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital during a protest of ambulance workers due to a dispute with the government over pay, in Liverpool, Britain January 23, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble 

Ambulance staff stand outside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital during a protest of ambulance workers due to a dispute with the government over pay, in Liverpool, Britain January 23, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble 

A medical worker helps a patient receiving treatment at the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Staff 

A patient lies on a bed at the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Staff TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales visit the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Merseyside, meeting staff and mental health first aiders and viewing the hospital facilities, in Liverpool, Britain January 12, 2023. Bruce Adams/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR 

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales visits the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Merseyside, meeting staff and mental health first aiders and viewing the hospital facilities, in Liverpool, Britain January 12, 2023. Bruce Adams/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR 

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales visits the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Merseyside, meeting staff and mental health first aiders and viewing the hospital facilities, in Liverpool, Britain January 12, 2023. Bruce Adams/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR 

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales visits the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Merseyside, meeting staff and mental health first aiders and viewing the hospital facilities, in Liverpool, Britain January 12, 2023. Bruce Adams/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR 

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales visits the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Merseyside, meeting staff and mental health first aiders and viewing the hospital facilities, in Liverpool, Britain January 12, 2023. Bruce Adams/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR