laboy. doctor suffern, your opening statement, please. >> good afternoon, senators, thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you today. my name is carolyn suffern. on the board-certified obstetrician gynecologist and a phd researcher at johns hopkins school of medicine. most of the with the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists and i spent the last 17 years working to understand and improve care and conditions for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated women. i provide clinical care inside r joke conducting extensive research, publishing over 80 peer-reviewed articles and writing national guidelines on best practices for care for this population, and the fuse on expressing today i have my own and do not necessarily reflect those of johns hopkins university or johns hopkins medicine. so i got into this work was called to a delivery when i was a first-year ob/gyn resident doctor in training in pennsylvania. everything about the ring was as usual. there were ivey poles, f