The guide discusses key health issues disproportionately affecting Black women and girls, including the maternal health crisis, a lack of diverse medical professionals and high rates of comorbidities.
A collaboration of more than 30 Black-led organizations has created a comprehensive guide for policymakers to apply a reproductive justice framework to formulate policy that centers and improves outcomes for Black women, girls and gender-expansive people.
Regina Davis Moss, president and CEO of In Our Own Voice, said reproductive justice is “the right to have or not to have a child, the right to raise their child in a safe and nurturing environment and the right to bodily autonomy.” Rep. Lauren Underwood , a lead sponsor of the “Momnibus” and founder and co-chairwoman of the caucus,in November that this particular package is “deeply personal” for a lot of Congressional members.
“The midwife allows — to the extent that you’re healthy — you can have a labor and delivery that doesn’t require a hospital,” explained Moss. “It allows you to have it in a more intimate setting and allows the connections, like bringing the baby immediately to the breast. It allows you to be surrounded more with family members.”
Shackling during pregnancy can also cause extreme pain, and many medical experts — including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses — oppose the practice.“A lot of times when people are incarcerated, they’re forgotten. They’re left behind,” she argued. “It’s already a traumatic experience.
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