Kimberly Lawson - VICE
APR 17 2018, 4:29PM
In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, four Black women share their pregnancy and childbirth experiences to highlight the lasting impact of the racism and trauma Black women too often face when entering motherhood.
When advocates and the media talk about Black maternal health, they often go straight to mortality rates: They do, after all, paint an exceedingly grim picture of the state of obstetric care for Black women. In a country where more women are dying from pregnancy-related causes than in any other developed nation in the world, Black women, according to the CDC, are three to four times more likely to be at risk than their white counterparts. Researchers say this is largely due to implicit and explicit racial bias, both in the health-care system and in society...
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