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Center for Black Maternal Health & Reproductive Justice:
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Addressing Transportation Barriers to Improve Healthcare Access in Arizona
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A Brief History of Midwifery in America
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Clinical outcomes improve when patient’s and surgeon’s ethnicity match, study shows
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The Controversial Birth of American Gynecology
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'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
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Governor Healey Signs Maternal Health Bill, Expanding Access to Midwifery, Birth Centers and Doulas in Massachusetts
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Governor Murphy Signs Bill Establishing Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center
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Helping Mothers and Children Thrive: Rethinking CMS’s Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model
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Infant Health and Mortality and Black/African American
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Legislature Passes Comprehensive Maternal Health Bill
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Life Story: Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy
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March of Dimes
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Maternity Care Desert
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Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans
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Maternal Mortality in the U.S Declined, though Disparities in the Black Population Persist
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Maternal Mortality Is on the Rise: 8 Things To Know
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Maternal Mortality: How the U.S. Compares to Other Rich Countries
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Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2021
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Medical Exploitation of Black Women
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National Midwifery Institute
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National Counsel of State Boards of Nursing
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North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
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Preterm Birth
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Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health: Current Status and Efforts to Address Them
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The Racist History of Abortion and Midwifery Bans
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Reducing Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
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State investigating Dallas birth center and midwives, following multiple complaints from patients
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The State of Telehealth Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)
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U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
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Which states have the highest maternal mortality rates?
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Why Equitable Access to Vaginal Birth Requires Abolition of Race-Based Medicine
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Zucker School of Medicine, Amos Grunebaum, MD
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