“If this is happening to the Olympic athlete … it’s happening to the everyday woman,” said reproductive justice advocate Regina Moss.
to describe how the stress of racial and gender discrimination wears down the body over a lifetime and impacts health outcomes; this weathering cannot be undone through implicit bias training and more prenatal care, experts like Moss say. Despite this research, misconceptions about Black maternal disparities persist.
“There’s often blaming, saying we eat poorly, we’re overweight, we’re diabetic, we smoke, we drink during pregnancy, we’re not married, we’re getting pregnant too young,” Moss said. “There’s all this blaming for things we’re ‘doing’ that causes these problems, but the data just doesn’t support that. There’s not just health issues, there’s socio-political issues, economic issues, and you can’t talk about us without taking these things into consideration.
In Our Own Voice is among several Black-led reproductive justice groups working to address these disparities. The organization on Thursdaywith more than two dozen policy recommendations for improving Black maternal health outcomes through addressing structural racism and gender oppression. The report urges federal and state leaders to fund doula and midwifery care, improve health care for incarcerated women, provide abortion access, implement comprehensive sex education and more.
Dr. Susan Cheng, the associate dean for public health practice and diversity, equity and inclusion at the Tulane University School of Public Health, said it’s also important to shift the conversation about Black maternal health by thinking deeply about how people simply engage with one another. “I hope this tragedy, as Allyson Felix said, is not in vain,” Cheng said. “I hope it resparks a very important and timely conversation about the ways we can better support our friends, families, and community members.”
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