Ending the Doom & Gloom: Shifting the Narrative About Black Maternal Health
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As the inaugural Black Maternal Health Week kicks off, it’s time for a national conversation about the role of racism and bias in maternity care practices.
Health & Science
Mobile Midwifery Delivers Health to Ghanaian Moms
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One mobile phone app delivers time-sensitive text messages or voicemails to pregnant women and new mothers; the other is for nurses. Together they are doing wonders for maternal and pregnancy health care and raising community awareness at the same time.
Abortion
New Rules for British Midwives Spark Abortion Furor
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The Department of Health has said that the new guidelines only clarify existing abortion laws and there’s been no change in the role nurses and midwives have played in abortion since the 1980s. But activists are trading punches through the press and social media.
affordable care act
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Birthing of Health Care Plan Put Midwives in Limbo
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About half of all U.S. births are covered by Medicaid, which means decisions about delivery practices under this part of the Affordable Care Act could ripple far and wide. The American College of Nurse Midwives is assessing all 277 marketplace plans.
Abortion
Minnesota OKs Workplace Bills; Asian LBT Targeted
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Minnesota’s governor approved a package of bills aimed at improving conditions for women in the workplace. Also this week, a report shows that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in some Asian countries are encountering abuse and discrimination without any protection of the state.
Health care industry
I Believe My Baby Thor Died of Health Care Politics
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Her son Thor’s death during a home birth was in part due to the tensions between midwives and hospitals in the United States, says Elizabeth Heineman in this excerpt from her memoir “Ghostbelly.”