Check out my guest blog on AROMidwifery! AROMidwifery stands for Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Work in Midwifery. How wonderful that this organization has finally been formed, and I am grateful to be a part of it!
This response to K. Heron’s graduation speech by one of her fellow students (previous post) testifies to how powerfully transformative the presence of anti-racist peers can be.
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There are a lot of growing pains happening in the midwifery world right now. The MOC chair and inner council resignation from MANA is really the sort of outward symptom of a larger sickness that has been plaguing midwifery in the U.S. for quite a while now. But these are clearly actions that need to be taken, because they raise important questions that need to be asked. We need to ask ourselves why are African American women 4 times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than Caucasian women? Why is it that 9/1,000 Native American babies are dying, versus 5/1,000 white babies? Why is it that so many more white women seem to have access to midwifery care? Why…
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