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Podcast: On Health for Women
Episode: On the Big Letdown: A Radical Conversation on Birth and Breastfeeding with Kimberly Seals Allers
Description: Content Warning: In this episode, we will be talking about maternal mortality, infant mortality, and the impact of racism on maternal health.60% of all maternal deaths are fully preventable, and the complications women experience are not inherent to black or brown bodies. Yet Black and Brown women have been blamed for their "bad outcomes" instead of recognizing that these deaths all too often have to do with failures in the obstetric system. In the US today, a Black woman is 12 times more likely to die of childbirth than a white woman, despite socioeconomic factors.Today...