Backlash to affirmative action hits pioneering maternal health program for Black women

Backlash to affirmative action hits pioneering maternal health program for Black women

As Briana Jones prepared for the birth of her second child, Adonis, monthly stipends from San Francisco’s Abundant Birth Project helped her pay for gas to drive to prenatal appointments and buy fresh fruits and vegetables for her toddler son and herself. Facebook

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For Briana Jones, a young Black mother in San Francisco, a city program called the Abundant Birth Project has been a godsend.Designed to counter the “ obstetric racism ” that researchers say leads a disproportionate number of African American mothers to die from childbirth, the project has provided 150 pregnant […]

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