Glaring inequality in how Black women are treated in health care settings is an injustice that will likely be exacerbated by the recent spate of state abortion laws, maternal health care advocates fear.
But she says no one listened. Her concerns were consistently dismissed or minimized while she was pregnant with her daughter, Madison, who is now 6. After being initially told it was asthma, Wilkes held out for a second opinion, refusing to go home. She was then diagnosed with deep-vein thrombosis and remained hospitalized for two more weeks.The 31-year-old mother of two says her pain wasn't taken seriously.
The author of the report, Amanda Stevenson, a sociologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, told CNN she cried when she finished the study, concluding more Black women would die as a result of a total abortion ban.Abortion bans are 'compounding tragedy'"To be killed at such a hopeful moment in someone's life is just such a tragedy and to be killed because of a pregnancy that you would terminate if you could is just compounding tragedy," Stevenson said.
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