Nursing Program, University of Washington, Bothell, Wash.
Corresponding author: Mary Abrums, PhD, Nursing Program, University of Washington, Box 358532, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011 (e-mail: mabrums@u.washington.edu).
The author acknowledges the women from Morning Sun Missionary Baptist Church (pseudonym), who contributed their life stories so that health professionals could see things from their point of view.
