Dr. Karen Cowgill is an epidemiologist based in Seattle, whose Fulbright Fellowship to the Democratic Republic of Congo led to important collaborative research on maternal hospital detention with Professor Abel Ntambue of the University of Lubumbashi. Dr. Cowgill sat down with China Tolliver and Dr. Alissa Jordan (remotely) to discuss hospital detention, her research, and maternal health. In this clip, Cowgill connects hospital detention to other birth injustices, as a fundamental violation of women's autonomy that is not exceptional but connected to myriad other ongoing violations of autonomy that women can experience during birthing.