‘Birthing while Black’ is a national crisis for the US. Here’s what Black lawmakers want to do about it
by Edwin Rios from US news | The Guardian on (#5YACT)
For Black women in Congress, maternal mortality hits close to home. The Black Maternal Health Caucus seeks change
When Alma Adams's daughter complained of abdominal pain during a difficult pregnancy, her doctor overlooked her cries for help. The North Carolina congresswoman's daughter had to undergo a last-minute caesarean section. She and her baby daughter, now 16, survived.
It could have gone another way. I could have been a mother who was grieving her daughter and granddaughter," Adams told the Guardian, following a week in which the White House highlighted the crisis of pregnancy-related deaths among Black women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Black women die at three times the rate of white women.
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