Former Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader Dies of Sepsis After Stillbirth

[RSherman]

57. This article is NOT about Roe! It's about Black maternal mortality!

"While overall maternal deaths in the U.S. have steadily ticked up over the past two decades, Black women remain two to three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With the risks to Black mothers exacerbated by implicit bias and medical racism, they are also more likely to experience life-threatening complications like preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and blood clots."

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““It’s, you know, we say, the best country in the world, right?” Anderson’s husband told FOX4 News. “Not if you’re a Black pregnant woman, it’s not—and that needs to change.”

Yes, we can agree that Republicans/Conservatives are passing laws that are dangerous to women's reproductive health.

At the same time, we must recognize that for so many Black women and infants to die in this day and age is unacceptable. I was pained to see that only one other poster alluded to this.

Even Serena Williams, who has resources and is in amazing physical shape had trouble. The day after giving birth to her daughter, she was short of breath. Having experienced blood clots in the past, she had no doubt that she was struggling with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. The trouble was no one believed her.

Dr. Chaniece Wallace, a Black pediatrician in Indianapolis died in 2020 due to preeclampsia complications two days after giving birth to her daughter.

In 2023, Tori Bowie, an elite Olympic athlete, died of complications from childbirth. Tori Bowie, who captured gold as a sprinter in the Olympics and the world championships, died at age 32 from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.

In 2016, Kira Johnson of Los Angeles died after giving birth from postpartum hemorrhage. After hours of her husband, Charles, letting hospital employees know that the catheter coming from her bedside was pink from blood, they finally made the decision to take her to surgery, where they found she had been bleeding internally for almost 10 hours.

In 2020, Amber Isaac of New York City suffered the same fate. Amber spent months pleading to see a doctor in-person in lieu of telehealth visits (due to COVID-19) because of her platelet levels. In late April she was admitted to the hospital after her condition worsened, where it was discovered she had hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count (HELLP) syndrome and was thus induced more than a month early and rushed into an emergency C-section. She later died after giving birth.

Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications.

In NYC, the Black maternal mortality rate is 9 times higher than their white peers.

In the US, Black people are twice as likely to have a preterm birth, birth a low weight baby, or have a child that dies before the age of one.

A 2019 survey that polled pregnant women of all races showed that 22 percent of Black women reported mistreatment by a health care professional during their pregnancies and childbirth. They are twice as likely as their white peers to report being ignored by a health care professional when they reported symptoms or asked for help.

Preeclampsia is 60 percent more common in Black birthing women than in their white counterparts.

Source: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine by Uche' Blackstock, MD

Excellent article:

https://www.communitysolutions.com/medical-bias-weathering-deadly-impact-black-mothers/

Also, read: Weathering by Geronimus