America — obsessed with reproduction — is a deadly place to give birth
And it’s even worse for Black women, across class lines and regardless of education. It’s something that hit all of us last month with the death of gold medal Olympian Tori Bowie, who was found dead in her Florida home, her baby’s head crowning.Advertisement
“Black women frequently experience disrespect, procedures without consent, rough handling, and dismissiveness toward pain from doctors,” Jocelyn Johnston, a professor at American University’s School of Public Affairs, wrote in a . “You could be the richest or the poorest, Black women are still three to five times more likely to die in childbirth than any poor white woman.”in New York found that Black, college-educated women were more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than White women who never finished high school.
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