Briana Jones had high blood pressure, leading to swollen ankles and dizziness, during the pregnancies with her two sons. During her more recent pregnancy, she qualified to be part of San Francisco’s Abundant Birth Project, whose $1,000-a-month stipend enabled her to move into an apartment and buy healthy foods. 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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