Regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would protect 2.8 million pregnant workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2024 – The National Partnership for Women & Families is calling out the recent partisan lawsuit led by 17 states to...
Intersectional Activism in a Post-Roe World – YES!
According to a 2018 report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, Black women are also more likely to experience maternal health complications throughout their pregnancies. Additionally, hospitals serving mostly Black communities provide lower-quality care, performing worse on 12 out of 15 types of birth outcomes, including elective deliveries, non-elective cesarean births, and maternal mortality. Additionally, the same report finds that Black women experience higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, which can negatively impact their maternal and infant health outcomes. Compared with white women, Black women are also more likely to be uninsured, more likely to face greater financial barriers to care, and less likely to access prenatal care.
How to Prepare for the Emotional, Physical, and Social Realities of Life Postpartum – SELF
“Adding to these complexities is the fact that postpartum care remains woefully inadequate in the US. According to the National Partnership for Women & Families, only 19% of Americans have access to paid family leave through their employers, and only 40% have personal medical leave through short-term disability insurance. That means more than half of Americans don’t have the ability to take off from work to care for their new baby, properly recover, and adjust to their new normal.”
Doulas Can Improve Maternal Health Yet Are Out of Reach for Most
The National Partnership for Women & Families, in collaboration with HealthConnect One, the National Health Law Program, and Tewa Women United, released today a new report, Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Doula Support, highlighting how doula support can make...
Fighting against the odds of being born into homelessness – 7 KBZK
“Your nutrition, your environmental exposures, your stress, all these have huge ah effects on how the baby fares,” said Carol Sakala, who leads maternal health and maternity care programming at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Overturning Roe Will Exacerbate the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis. It’s Time for Our Leaders To Act – Ms. Magazine
Senate Budget Reconciliation Deal is Bittersweet Compromise that Fails to Center Women
Statement of Jocelyn C. Frye, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
A Week-By-Week Guide to C-Section Recovery – Baby Chick
The Childbirth Connection site is part of the National Partnership for Women & Families that has been helping women and families regarding maternity care for over 100 years. The Childbirth Connection site has a great section that answers questions in preparation for your cesarean section and options for delivery after your cesarean section.
Letter: Protection for pregnant women – The Sentinel
“According to data provided by the National Partnership for Women & Families, nearly 31,000 cases of pregnancy discrimination were filed with federal and state agencies between 2011 and 2015”
How Philanthropy is Responding to the Fall of Roe — and What Abortion Rights Organizers Need Now – Inside Philanthropy
“The decision was years in the making — the inevitable result of a decades-long campaign to put politics and ideology ahead of women’s health and wellbeing and the rule of law,” said Jocelyn C. Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
“Today’s decision severely limits access to abortion care, but tomorrow, it could be access to birth control or some other form of care,” said Frye of the National Partnership for Women & Families. “Women’s health should not be treated like a political football, and the consequences of these decisions are not a game.”
Umm, Yes, The “Roe” Decision is a Problem for Black People – the B|E note
“Doctors have said it puts them in an untenable position where they have to base decisions on their legal liability, which shouldn’t be a consideration at all,” said Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women and Families. “At what point is the life of the mother at risk, when she’s coding on the table?”
Maternal mortality rates in the US outpace other industrialised nations. It’s about to get worse – The Independent
“The Supreme Court’s decision and its potentially life-threatening consequences will disproportionately impact Black women, who are three times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than white women. Black women are also more likely to be uninsured, according to a 2019 report from the National Partnership for Women & Families.”
Black women are opting for more births outside the hospital: report – The Grio
Man sues Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following wife’s death, alleging a culture of racism – KCBS Radio
Report: MA Needs to Reduce Barriers to Community Births – Public News Service
Les Américaines racisées accouchent de plus en plus hors hôpital, contraintes par la précarité – Madmoizelle
More people of color gave birth outside hospitals in 2020, report finds – Axios
US women of color increasingly seeking alternatives to hospital births – study – The Guardian
More People Giving Birth at Home and In Birth Centers
Black Communities See Largest Increase