Black Maternal Health

Women of color and those with less education have higher chance of being uninsured.

The initiative will find a new way to reduce maternal health disparities. In Maryland, Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts.

The Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024 seeks to accomplish four goals. It is among hundreds of pieces of legislation awaiting the governor’s review and signature.

Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

The county and Luminis Health want to build a $300 million facility that will partially focus on women’s health.

The pandemic worsened America’s maternal mortality crisis, with the burden of death disproportionately felt by communities of color. We speak with an ob/gyn. Then, advocates are collecting signatures to put a baby bonus on the ballot - $1000 to new parents in Baltimore.

Black women die before, during and after childbirth at twice the rate of white women--who are themselves at greater risk than in other countries. We ask a family-medicine doctor and a leader of B-More for Healthy Babies -- Why? And what to do about it.