[ACLU-CU ALERT] Birthing Justice documentary about racial disparities in racial birth outcome

[Champaign County ACLU Announcements]

Tomorrow night at the Spurlock auditorium

https://www.smilepolitely.com/splog/watch-a-free-screening-of-birthing-justice-at-spurlock-museum/

Nation-wide, Black women are three times more likely to die from a
pregnancy-related cause than White women. In 2022, Black women’s maternal
mortality rate
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in
Chicago was nearly six times higher than White women.

This award-winning, feature-length documentary film centers on the
expertise and lived experiences of Black women and their advocates. As
cameras follow women through pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum
period, medical and social justice experts expose the challenges they
face—including genetic predispositions, chronic stress, racial bias,
culturally ignorant care and barriers to adequate healthcare. These
inequitable structures and systems have resulted in a racial disparity in
maternal and infant health.
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