Perspective: The annual event focuses on maternal mortality as well as reproductive autonomy and access to care
Black Maternal Health Week is part of a long legacy of Black women-led reproductive justice advocacy and their insistence on bodily autonomy and “full spectrum” health. As we seek to address the issues, it is instructive to look back at the foremothers of this movement between the 1970s and 1990s
Also that year, an interdisciplinary group of Black health experts and community members convened for the “Mini Consultation on the Mental and Physical Health Problems of Black Women,” in Washington. Both episodes represented efforts toward building coalitions, emphasizing both community work and advocacy for national health policy change. In 1983, Byllye Avery and colleagues organized the First National Conference on Black Women’s Health Issues at Spelman College.
Bodily autonomy continues to be at the core of reproductive justice work, and the language that the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice created to express the need for a “full range” approach to Black maternal health resonated with similar calls dating back several decades.
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