Reproductive Health Impact Spec

“Racism in maternal healthcare is creating deadly misdiagnoses, bias, mistreatment, and medical gaslighting. Because of this, Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, have a higher risk of developing life-threatening conditions, and experience a higher rate of postpartum complications and death.

Healthcare providers still hold racist beliefs that Black people have thicker skin and stronger immune systems, are more fertile, and feel less pain. They rate Black women’s pain lower and recommend less relief than to white women. Black women receive less care, shorter appointments, and fewer standard procedures than women of other races. By dismissing the concerns and symptoms of Black mothers, doctors across the country are harming and killing Black women and their babies.

We cannot protect Black mothers and challenge the racism rampant in maternal healthcare without the knowledge that it exists. What we don’t know will hurt them.

Visit RHImpact.org to learn more about how you can fight back against maternal racism in healthcare, and protect and empower Black mothers and their babies.”

“Black maternal mortality continues to rise. Black fetal mortality is despairingly high. Yet nobody knows about it. No one is talking about the racism that’s corrupting maternal healthcare and killing Black women and their babies.

We cannot protect them and challenge the racism rampant in maternal healthcare without the knowledge that it exists. What we don’t know will hurt them.

Learn more about the issue and how to fight back against this racism at RHimpact.org.”

“Black women have been the victims of forced experimentation, misdiagnoses, gaslighting, and abuse at the hands of doctors and the healthcare system since the first slave-bearing ship arrived on our coasts in 1619. Black mothers and their babies are still at risk today.

Healthcare providers still hold racist beliefs that Black women have thicker skin and stronger immune systems, are more fertile, and feel less pain than white women. By dismissing the concerns and symptoms of Black mothers, doctors across the country are harming and killing Black women and their babies.

We cannot protect Black mothers and challenge the racism rampant in maternal healthcare without the knowledge that it exists. What we don’t know will hurt them.

Visit RHImpact.org to learn more about how you can fight back against maternal racism in healthcare, and protect and empower Black mothers and their babies.”