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Your contribution is not charity. It is solidarity. It is resistance. It is love in action.
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Your contribution is not charity. It is solidarity. It is resistance. It is love in action. 〰️
we’re in a crisis.
There is so much to celebrate in the filed of birthwork — but we’re also facing a public health crisis. The United States continues to carry the highest maternal death rates amongst developed countries.
Every day in this country, in one of the wealthiest nations on earth, women are dying while giving life. And too often, those women are Black, Indigenous, or immigrants. This is not a tragedy of chance — it is a crisis of neglect, of racism, and of a healthcare system built to serve some and sacrifice others.
Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. Indigenous women face similar, and often undercounted, dangers. Immigrant mothers, too, face language barriers, fear of medical costs, and systemic indifference that put their lives and their babies’ lives at risk. These women are crying out for care, and too often, the system answers with silence.
These deaths and complications are not inevitable, they are preventable. The complications that steal mothers from their families — such as hemorrhages, infections, and preeclampsia, are well understood and treatable with timely, compassionate care. What’s missing isn’t medicine. What’s missing is justice.
We must confront the uncomfortable truth: racism kills mothers. Whether through implicit bias that dismisses pain, the economic barriers that delay prenatal care, or the social inequities that make pregnancy more dangerous for marginalized women, the result is the same — lives lost, families shattered, futures stolen.
We cannot let this continue. We cannot normalize the preventable loss of Black, Indigenous, and immigrant mothers. Every mother deserves to survive childbirth. Every child deserves to be held by their mother.
If you believe that equality means something — then act like it. Donate to The Birthwork Foundation today.
Your contribution is not charity. It is solidarity. It is resistance. It is love in action.