The Night the Hospital Waiting Room Erupted

On March 14, 2019, a family of eleven packed the third-floor waiting room at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Rosa Gutierrez had been in labor for nineteen hours with complications. Her husband Miguel paced the hallway, whispering prayers in Spanish. Her mother sat rigid in a plastic chair, rosary beads clicking. Rosa's sister had driven four hours from Little Rock.…