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WASHINGTON A House hearing on reducing maternal morbidity and mortality among Black mothers started off harmoniously, as would be expected, but later devolved into disagreement over root causes of the problem. Our nation is facing a maternal health crisis, said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, at the beginning of Thursday s hearing, which was entitled, Birthing While Black: Examining America s Black Maternal Health Crisis. Across the globe, our maternal mortality rate ranks the absolute worst among similar developed nations and 55th overall.
Deaths Unequally Distributed The danger of giving birth in the U.S. is not equally distributed, Maloney continued. The CDC estimates that Black women are more than three times as likely to die during or after childbirth as white women. Black Americans experience higher rates of life-threatening complications at every stage of childbirth, from pregnancy to
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Attorney General Nessel Joins Series of Multistate EffortsContact: Lynsey Mukomel 517-599-2746Agency: Attorney General
May 7, 2021
LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel continues to join attorneys general from around the nation in a number of multistate actions, including the following:
Letter Urging Congress to Pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021
On May 6, Nessel joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in urging Congress to pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021. The legislation is aimed at combatting the high Black maternal mortality rate and increasing access to maternal and perinatal care.
The coalition is highlighting the need to advance health equity across the country for all racial and ethnic minorities - especially Black mothers. The coalition issued a letter yesterday to Congressional leadership calling on Congress to pass H.R. 959, the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021. This legislative pac
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an impassioned case arguing those who truly value life must support Planned Parenthood, noting how many babies have been born because of prenatal services offered by the organization.
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New York Democrat also said that she was a Planned Parenthood baby, as her mother relied on prenatal services offered by Planned Parenthood before her birth. If we want to talk about Planned Parenthood let’s talk about how many lives Planned Parenthood has saved. And how many babies have been born because of the prenatal care provided by Planned Parenthood, Ocasio-Cortez said.
Planned Parenthood’s annual 2019-2020 report said it provided 354,871 abortion services and 8,626 prenatal services.
As a midwife in South Florida with a practice that is 85-90% Black, it was difficult to know what to say to my clients in the wake of the murder of MaâKhia Bryant. With International Day of the Midwife on May 5, we are reminded once again that state violence is a big factor in why Black midwives are necessary.
According to HuffPost, in a White House roundtable during Black Maternal Health Week in April, Vice President Kamala Harris linked the same racial inequities that lead to police killing Black people to how Black women suffer higher rates of death in pregnancy, and childbirth.