The WHO recently reported a global decline in the maternal mortality rate over the past 20 years—but pregnancy related deaths in the U.S. more than doubled in the same two decades.
. If a woman’s employment ends, so do her employer-sponsored health benefits, leaving unmet physical and mental health needs compounded by the expenses of purchasing health insurance in the private marketplace.
Social expectations are embedded into the fabric of our lives: moms who juggle work and caregiving; who balance budgets and breastfeeding; who are barraged for what they do and what they don’t do everywhere from social media to the grocery line. As a society, we feel empowered to tell new mothers how to parent as we feel they should, imposing cultural and familial values onto complete strangers; we critique mothers who work and vilify those receiving public assistance.
We are able to take a stand on women’s health and support meaningful family leave policies, and to decide that women’s lives are worth the price of providing a full year of health and mental health services during and around the time of pregnancy. We are able to refocus our efforts on naming and undoing the racism, classism and sexism that pervade life in the United States and which continue to put women’s lives at risk.
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