Funders for Birth Justice and Equity
Coming Together to Fund a Transformed and Just Maternity Care System
Birth is a reproductive
justice issue.
The U.S. healthcare system struggles to deliver respectful reproductive care to all birthing people, resulting in serious consequences in maternal and infant health outcomes, especially for BIPOC birthing people. Structural and institutional racism is the root cause of disparities in outcomes and experience in birth. Birth is a reproductive justice issue.
The numbers speak for themselves.
10th of 10
The US ranks 10th among 10 high income countries in maternal mortality, infant mortality, and cesarean rate. (1)
3x
Black women are more than 3 times as likely and Native women more than twice as likely as white women die from a pregnancy related cause. (2)
60%
Of pregnancy related deaths are considered preventable. (3)
1 in 6
Birthing people, regardless of race – experience mistreatment by health care providers during birth. (4)
(1) Maternity Care in the United States: We Can – and Must – Do Better, National Partnership for Women and Families, February 2020, p. 7; (2) Ibid., p. 8; (3) Ibid., p. 8; (4) Giving Voice to Mothers Study: Full Report and Executive Summary. Birth Place Lab, 2019, p. 6
We’re Fighting to Give All Women Better Birth Outcomes
We are using our collective funding to go beyond programmatic changes. We are aiming to transform systems, dismantle racism in the maternity care system, and advance reproductive justice. We do this by influencing change in hospital policies around maternal health care, and increasing the accessibility of provably safe and effective alternate birth plans life midwifery.
It’s time for you
to get involved.
We are doing all we can to transform the maternal care system in the United States, but we can’t do it alone. We need funding to contract the money and time-saving measures put in by hospitals that put birthing people at risk. We also need funding to create midwife-run birthing facilities across the country. By helping us change birthing practices in the United States, you can help save thousands of lives.
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