A Life-or-Death Crisis for Black Mothers

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Black mothers and infants in the United States are far more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts. The disparity is tied intrinsically to the lived experience of being a black woman in America. Guests: Linda Villarosa, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and Simone Landrum, a young mother in New Orleans. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale.
0:02.4	This is the Daily.
0:04.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.6	Today, childbirth is killing black mothers and their babies
0:13.8	at staggeringly high rates in the U.S.
0:17.0	Why their deaths have everything to do with the lived experience
0:21.6	of being a black woman in America.
0:24.6	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:28.5	It's Friday, May 11th.
0:31.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:33.8	Eve.
0:34.8	And baby was moving good on the ultrasound of the scan.
0:38.6	He's big because can't see his face in the mind,
0:41.4	so he's a big.
0:42.8	Does he head down?
0:43.9	Uh, yep.
0:44.9	Good.
0:45.9	Yeah, he's been head down for a while now.
0:48.9	So he stayed back and you can see him moving up and down
0:53.2	in my stomach now.
0:54.4	So big.
0:56.6	Is that real?
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