More than 700 women die each year in the U.S. from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. Advocates across the U.S. are working to reduce that number
When Brittany Ferrell earned her pediatric nursing degree from the University of Missouri St. Louis in May of 2014, she’d already had lots of experience as a community activist.
Ferrell is known throughout Missouri and the Midwest for her community organizing and activism. She’s most passionate about the challenges for pregnant women of color in St. Louis and beyond.,” Ferrell says. “Just like state violence is allowing black folks to be shot dead in the street, and no one’s being held accountable or even having to atone for the death of black bodies, the same thing is happening in these medical institutions.
, to fund state committees to review and investigate deaths of expectant and new mothers, to train providers to improve the quality of care and to make a summary of each maternal death available to the public.
“What we see in maternal mortality is what we see everywhere else,” says Dr. William Callaghan, Chief of the Maternal and Infant Health Branch in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men. There’s a litany of that type of disparity.
Pamela Merritt wasn’t raised to be a reproductive justice activist. Though her solid middle class upbringing in St. Louis, Missouri was fueled by parents who helped register neighbors to vote and espoused civil rights, they also worked hard to ensure that their children attended the best schools, wore the best clothes, spoke with clear, precise English.
When Merritt shared her story with her African American female friends, she discovered she wasn’t alone. “So many of them had experiences like mine and worse. And we were all what you would consider upper middle class. That’s when I drew the line from where I stood to where a young, lower-income black woman would probably go through in that same setting. And that’s when I couldn’t just turn my back.”In the U.S., black women are 2.
Just days before the scheduled procedure, Kellman says she was contacted by the Ferguson police department about some past due traffic tickets. To avoid jail, she used her abortion money.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Midwife Nandi Andrea Hill weighs Baileigh Day’s newborn son, Aiden, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hill says her mother was an assistant to an “underground midwife” in Illinois back in the 1970s and 1980s.
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