Racism in health care
Thank you @EricaLG for this important @nytimes piece on a St. Louis doula program, part of a nonprofit that received funding in the $1.7 trillion federal budget bill, by focusing on a benefit largely associated with affluent white women.https://t.co/HNxOa8qTtI
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) January 19, 2023
After years of anti-choicers keening about abortion being Black genocide, it turns out abortion bans are Black genocide. https://t.co/ZSverepGYZ
— 🤌🏾 Imani Gandy 👆🏾 (@AngryBlackLady) January 11, 2023
Sobering new data from the last few years showing the U.S. maternal mortality rate continues to exceed that of other high-income countries.
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) December 4, 2022
This horrifyingly high rate is driven especially by the deaths of Black birthing people. pic.twitter.com/KPPAq0uywK
NEW: Reporter @deldeib of @propublica has been writing about stillbirths all this year. Here's her latest, on how racial disparities touch this part of America's healthcare system.
— Steve Mills (@smmills1960) December 27, 2022
Tough, sensitive reporting and lovely writing.https://t.co/9DlCV3ZX2q
If wealthy Black moms are dying in childbirth when they can afford the best of care, I don't want to think about the fate of middle class & low income Black mothers. Having a child is the most natural part of the human experience. It shouldn't be a death sentence for Black women https://t.co/5wsdFjD9pK
— Ameshia Cross (@AmeshiaCross) February 6, 2023
Sad! 