{"id":2993,"date":"2024-10-21T21:14:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T04:14:52","slug":"black-women-face-a-maternal-health-crisis-and-advocates-want-it-to-be-an-election-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/black-women-face-a-maternal-health-crisis-and-advocates-want-it-to-be-an-election-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Black women face a maternal health crisis, and advocates want it to be an election issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/womens-health\/features\/maternal-mortality.html#:~:text=Racial%20Disparities%20Exist,%2C%20physical%2C%20and%20emotional%20health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC<\/a> and health experts attribute those gaps to chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and hypertension as well as structural racism, implicit bias from healthcare providers and lack of access to quality healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Leah Wright Rigueur, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, said abortion restrictions have made it even more difficult for Black women to access emergency care in cases of failing pregnancies or complications from medical abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/black-women-face-maternal-health-crisis-advocates-want-election-issue-rcna176385\">NBC News <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0CDC and health experts attribute those gaps to chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and hypertension as well as structural racism, implicit bias from healthcare providers and lack of access to quality healthcare. Leah Wright Rigueur, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, said abortion restrictions have made it even more difficult for Black women &#8230; <a title=\"Black women face a maternal health crisis, and advocates want it to be an election issue\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/black-women-face-a-maternal-health-crisis-and-advocates-want-it-to-be-an-election-issue\/\" aria-label=\"More on Black women face a maternal health crisis, and advocates want it to be an election issue\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,172,460,398,483,202,430,90,450,443,482],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-abortion-bans","tag-black-womens-health","tag-bodily-autonomy","tag-cdc","tag-democrats","tag-human-rights","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-reproductive-justice","tag-structural-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}