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America Dissected

The Black Maternal Health Caucus with Rep. Lauren Underwood

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

One of the most galling examples of inequity in America continues to be the stunningly high rate at which Black mothers die in pregnancy and childbirth and Black babies die before during their first year of life. Abdul reflects on how structural inequity continues to take mothers’ and babies’ lives. Then he talks to Rep. Lauren Underwood, Chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus and sponsor of the “Momnibus” package to eliminate these disparities. Baby 2 Baby: https://baby2baby.org/ Star Legacy Foundation: https://starlegacyfoundation.org/ BabyQuest Foundation: https://babyquestfoundation.org/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0

Pfizer submitted its COVID-19 vaccine to the FDA for emergency use authorization for children

0:11.6

aged six months to four years.

0:13.7

A new variant has emerged and it may be more transmissible than the original Omicron.

0:18.1

But scientists don't believe it'll cause another surge.

0:20.8

Billionaire Mark Cuban launches an online pharmacy for generic drugs and President Biden

0:24.9

re-launches his cancer moonshot.

0:27.1

This is America Dissected.

0:28.1

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Sahid.

0:35.4

There are a few moments in life as singular as childbirth.

0:39.4

For the parents out there, you know there's no moment that changes you as suddenly as meeting

0:43.4

your new child for the first time.

0:45.2

It's a rush of joy and gratitude, excitement and responsibility that fundamentally changes

0:49.3

you.

0:50.3

For a long time though, giving birth was one of the most dangerous things a human could

0:53.3

do.

0:54.3

A handoff of life, from mother to baby, too often failed.

0:58.0

One or both, mother and baby, wouldn't make it through.

1:01.0

It took millions of mothers lives right in their prime.

1:03.9

And if they lived, too often they had to bury their infants before they even had a chance

1:07.8

of life.

1:09.5

For the past couple of weeks, we've been planning to have a conversation about this relationship

1:13.1

between mother and baby and how even in 2022, there's a lot of work to be done to protect

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