Without an 'ounce of empathy': Their stories show the dangers of being Black and pregnant

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Black women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. And this disparity increases with age, according to the CDC.

I don't think patients realize that they are really the consumers and they have more power than they think. And so if you're not treating patients in a certain way, they can go somewhere else.“I don't think patients realize that they are really the consumers and they have more power than they think,” said Greenidge. “And so if you're not treating patients in a certain way, they can go somewhere else. Then you start affecting people economically. And things will change.

Allsbrook said providers should have to go through cultural competency training and understand the community they are serving. Nathalie Riobe-Taylor, a mother of three, at Memorial Park in Nyack July 16, 2020.

“More and more women are wanting to birth at home,” said Magpiong, who is Asian, and has had her own practice for a year. Before that, she spent eight years as a birth worker and studying to be a midwife. She’s attended about 200 births. The Westchester Medical Center Health Network staff is trained annually in diversity and inclusion best practices. Additionally, the Advanced OB-GYN care team participates in unconscious bias training, also available to all members of their workforce. Dr. Paige Long Sharps is currently the Physician Advisor at University Hospital in Newark, NJ. Long Sharps was also an OB-GYN for almost 22 years...

 

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Maybe talk about the danger to the black baby they carry. There is not one place less safe to a black baby then being in the womb.... because of their abortion rate. Seriously, it is safer for them to live in Chicago after birth then it is in the womb beforehand

If you are not aware our news reports mostly CA, MI, NY, WA, OR. China essentially owns these states. Communism is being taught in the public schools. 5 Aircraft carriers have blocked China who recently fired on our fleet warning shots. They are attempting to infiltrate the U.S.

We have 7 kids, the only good experiences we had is when we switched to midwives. I guess I married a black woman and didnt even know it.

SO SICK OF THIS campaign against White's just to lift up a winning race who has been given every opportunity the REST of US GETS be it whites, mexican, asians, native americans. We walk the same path from birth to death. No one gets a free ride! Stop trying

You think being black and pregnant 🤰 is bad try being a Native American woman. This is a group whose still experiencing genocide.

Okay now do the danger of being a black baby in the womb

Race-baiting fake news media

You write such Bull Shit stories

Maybe because the use of abortions as a form of birth control

If any of you want to look into this further, I recommend you read this book

Private versus public doctors. Expect this to worsen if universal healthcare is in place.

White women are 1 in 38 times more likely to die from skin cancer than black women who are 1 in 1000🤔

Such BS.

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