Racism in health: the roots of the US Black maternal mortality crisis
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A perfect storm of factors has led to huge racial disparities in maternal healthcare. In the USA, as abortion clinics continue to close, this inequity is projected to widen. In this podcast from Nature and ScientificAmerican, we hear from leading academics unpacking the racism at the heart of the system. From the historical links between slavery and gynaecology to the systematic erasure of America’s Black midwives. What is behind the Black maternal mortality crisis, and what needs to change?
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| 0:16.6 | Cross, the new series only on Prime Video. |
| 0:20.5 | You're going to be part of a masterpiece. Evil knows his name. Cross, the new series only on Prime Video. |
| 0:22.0 | You're going to be part of a masterpiece. |
| 0:24.4 | Evil knows his name. |
| 0:27.0 | Detective Alex Cross. |
| 0:28.9 | Where he lives. |
| 0:30.5 | It was in my house. |
| 0:32.5 | His darkest secret. |
| 0:35.7 | And when I'm done, the world will know the truth. |
| 0:39.2 | Based on characters created by James Patterson. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm not a monster. I don't kill for fun. |
| 0:45.7 | Cross. New series. Watch now only on Prime Video. |
| 0:50.7 | Hey, what's that? |
| 0:55.2 | It's a brochure about all the help that's available to pregnant women. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm pulling up to one of the last clinics in Georgia, where you can still get a medical abortion. |
| 1:04.0 | What is it a brochure about? |
| 1:12.6 | On the way up the road, I'm accosted by an anti-abortion protester who starts vigorously knocking on my Uber window, thrusting a series of flyers with pictures of fetuses in my face. |
| 1:17.6 | Are you here for an abortion? |
| 1:19.6 | Do you think I'm here for an abortion? |
| 1:21.6 | After I reveal that I'm reporting for Scientific American, They try appealing to, well, science. |
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