maternal health

This fact sheet includes nine concrete strategies to remove the structural racism that worsens Black birthing people's mental health.

Sunita Mainali and Sumitra Poudel share updates from Nepal about WOREC's current work.

La CORPS féministe in Québec publishes a second volume drawing from "Our Bodies, Ourselves," focused on birthing, fertility, and pregnancy.

The Boston Neighborhood Network discusses racial inequities in Black maternal health care, and what we can do about this public health crisis.

Mary Kabati, Executive Director of the Tanzania Home Economics Organization (TAHEA), shares updates about TAHEA's current work.

Attacks on our reproductive choices are costing the lives of Black women and birthing people of color. This report from the Black Maternal Health Federal Policy Collective highlights the importance of accessible abortion care and the need to protect our right to abortion.

Wakisha Stewart, a mother, wife, and nurse, shares her experience of having a postpartum heart attack at the age of 31.

How do abortion bans lead to deteriorating access to maternity care and other health care? Medical students are decreasingly applying for residency in states with abortion restrictions. Health care providers are also leaving those states.

A network of indigenous doulas in Washington shows how Indigenous knowledge and experience foster healthier pregnancies and birth outcomes within Native communities.

We have the right to form and raise families in safe, healthy environments that are free of toxic chemicals. This fact sheet from “In Our Own Voice” shows how reproductive justice and environmental justice intersect.

BIPOC doulas Selena Maldonado and Lydia Harris discuss the benefits for Latine people of having a doula and/or midwife.

An obstetrician and a new mother talk about the challenges Black women in rural Georgia face finding mental health support during pregnancy.