Arrests for Pregnancy Loss Are Little More Than Modern Witch Trials Centuries ago, the state wounded women’s bodies in public to enforce obedience. Today, it punishes them through arrests, indictments, and mugshots plastered all over the news that trail people for life.

“The engine behind these prosecutions is prenatal personhood, this idea that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are people”…and miscarriage tissue embodies “deceased people who actually lived.”
#codifyroe #pregnancyjustice #maternalhealthcrisis #science #patientprotections

#BlackMaternityCare #MaternalHealthCrisis #HealthNews
Childbirth shouldn't be a DEATH SENTENCE for BLACK WOMEN but across America over 1,100 counties have closed hospital maternity units, 13 in Florida. Pregnant women travel miles for childbirth care. More: 👉 healthvybz.blogspot.com/2026/02/conf...

Confronting the Black Maternal Health Crisis --- Racism in U.S. Healthcare Is a Life-or-Death Crisis! McDonald, N. R. (2026). Systemic racism worsens women’s & children’s health: How hospital closures & structural inequality fuels a national crisis

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Childbirth shouldn't be a DEATH SENTENCE for BLACK WOMEN but across America over 1,100 counties have closed hospital maternity units, 13 in Florida. Pregnant women travel miles for childbirth care. #Health
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Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This is a public health emergency. #AddToBlacksky #Health #News
#MaternalHealthCrisis #EndSystemicRacism #NorrisRMcDonald #BlackMaternalHealth #HealthVybz sulfabittasnews.blogspot.com/2026/02/syst...

Mental health is only part of this crisis.

Every parent deserves to survive birth and thrive afterward.

This isn’t just about care during delivery, it’s about what happens before and after, too.

#MaternalHealthCrisis #MentalHealthMatters #ThrivingMoms #QuietConnection #PostpartumJustice

Rising Extreme Heat Compounds the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis Policymakers must act to protect the health and safety of pregnant people—including by passing the Protecting Moms and Babies Against Climate Change Act, increasing access to indoor home cooling, and ...

🚨🔥For every mother: Extreme heat is a HUGE threat to healthy pregnancies, increasing risks of complications and preterm birth. We need policy to protect moms & babies now. #MaternalHealthCrisis #HeatIsLifeThreatening #ClimateActionForMoms #momsky

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Mental health is only part of this crisis.

Every parent deserves to survive birth and thrive afterward.

This isn’t just about care during delivery, it’s about what happens before and after, too.

#MaternalHealthCrisis #MentalHealthMatters #ThrivingMoms #QuietConnection #PostpartumJustice

Medicaid pays for 42% of all births in the U.S. Removing it isn’t cost-saving it’s catastrophic.
#MaternalHealthCrisis #MedicaidCutsKill #ReproJustice

Want to reduce maternal mortality? Fund Medicaid. Want more preventable deaths? Cut it. It’s that simple.
#MaternalHealthCrisis #ReproJustice #PolicyKills

You can’t fight maternal mortality while slashing the program that pays for prenatal care. It’s not reform. It’s sabotage.
#MedicaidIsEssential #MaternalHealthCrisis #ReproJusticeNow

Senators discuss Native Connections program to combat youth mental health crisis Senators emphasize funding for Native Connections amidst rising youth suicide rates.

Senators are sounding the alarm on the urgent need for funding in programs like Native Connections, essential for combating the alarming rise in suicide rates among Native youth.

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If living in #Texas while having a #baby was as dangerous as Preeclampsia or Placental abruption.. Would you risk it? Thousands do, every year. This isn’t rare. It’s policy. #MaternalHealthCrisis #WomensRights

Winner hospital ends labor and delivery services This change means expectant mothers in Winner and surrounding areas will have to travel farther for labor and delivery, as many nearby towns have also discontinued these services.

Another blow to rural #maternitycare: Winner Regional Health in SD will end L&D services starting Feb. 1, 2025. Expectant moms now face longer travel and many uncertainties for childbirth, as nearby towns also lack L&D services. www.newschannelnebraska.com/story/520901... #MaternalHealthCrisis