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Tatyana Ali Knows Black Moms Deserve Better Than Her Own Traumatic Birth Story
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1/30/2021
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There is unequivocally a crisis in maternal and infant mortality in the United States and it is disproportionately affecting Black and Indigenous birthing people. Stories from this crisis trickle in month-to-month, accounts of mothers with perfectly healthy pregnancies experiencing traumatic births and, in the worst cases, end tragically with death of the parent or the baby.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality ratio for the USA more than doubled from an estimated 12 to 28 maternal deaths per 100,000 births and the country has now a higher ratio than those reported for most high-income countries and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Libya and Turkey” and more than half of these deaths are considered preventable. For Black people giving birth, they are three times as likel ....

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