U.S. Olympian Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth

[HarlemHottie]

Bm, yall really don't understand how dangerous childbirth has become for bw in the last few decades, it seems.

Chaniece Wallace (1990 − October 22, 2020),[1] a black woman and physician, died at 30 years of age from complications of pregnancy two days after giving birth. Her death is seen as preventable and is viewed in the context of high rates of maternal mortality in the United States, particularly among the African American population.[2] It is cited as an example in medical and scholarly publications to call for improved health outcomes in the black U.S. population

Death of Chaniece Wallace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The story of Shalon Irving is shocking.

Shalon was an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the preeminent public health institution in the U.S. Her focus there was on gaining a better understanding of how structural inequality, trauma and violence make people sick.

Her work took a very personal turn when Shalon became pregnant with her first child. Three weeks after giving birth Shalon collapsed and died.

A national disgrace: Black maternal death

The story of Shalon Irving is shocking. Thanks to reportage of ProPublica and NPR the demise of this extraordinary African American scientist and mother was brought to the public in late 2017.

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[King_Kamala61]

It is your choice to have children or not, and the reasons for that really do not matter.

What I will point out is that your responses to other options mentioned by follow on posts really point towards you not wanting to have children at all. So instead of using the Black women mortality rate in child birth, which is double White women's rate but really still very minute over all, as your reason for why you do not want children, just be honest. Your constant denial of other methods of having children proves that you don't want children at all regardless of the mortality rate.

That would be erroneous. I'm adding additional reasons plus the major one. Please do not be so myopic.

 

[King_Kamala61]

i made threads about black women maternal mortality rate but got little attention. the maternal mortality rate for black women in alabama is worse than lebanon and iran.

The fact you got men upset that a man doesn't want to out the woman he loves through this bullshyt and I got push back is telling.

I won't carry the child at all...this is all on the woman..but she won't get a child from me. I refuse to see my woman in pain and distress and possible death just to bring a life forth...it's selfish as fukk if you ask me..but I think differently from most people.

 

[King_Kamala61]

Bm, yall really don't understand how dangerous childbirth has become for bw in the last few decades, it seems.

You gotta realize alot of these posters read with their fingers and can't practice empathy let alone rationalize reality. They believe in jesus.....they don't think logically at all.

Plus I'm a man...I don't carry the child...the woman does...so who am I to say or dictate a black women will carry my child and be put at risk?

That's the big problem in this thread...men controlling women's bodies for selfish reasons.

And if that makes me a simp..let me get my crown. So I can be KING SIMP

 

[Wiseborn]

Maaan my good friend almost lost her daughter during labor if it wasn't for a black female nurse. They had to snatch the baby out with an emergency c section. If it had been 3 more hrs she would've died. That literally terrified me. I can't do it, to lose the woman I love via something she didn't have to do is crazy.

R.I.P to chére and may Maman and Baron unite her with those she hasn't seen and those she never knew...this is heartbreaking man.

You just cant trust white doctors unfortunately

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Even sadder is that had she been checked on sooner its likely the baby could have survived because 8 months is almost full term.

 

[King_Kamala61]

You just cant trust white doctors unfortunately

Nope not at all. I should've went to medical school instead of getting my art degree. I loved biology and excelled at sciences. Especially anatomy and physiology

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

This is exactly why if I ever get married I'm not having kids....the risk to black women dying is extremely high and it don't matter the tax bracket

Or just find a black doctor and stay away from white doctors when it comes to stuff like child birth or any health related issues.

 

[King_Kamala61]

why is the risk highee for black women?
Malpractice or biological reasons?

Both but mostly malpractice. It's cut in half when ya Dr black

 

[hood b. goode]

Terrible. RIP

 

[Traveler]

Nope not at all. I should've went to medical school instead of getting my art degree. I loved biology and excelled at sciences. Especially anatomy and physiology

Ain't nothing stopping you now but excuses.

 

[King_Kamala61]

Ain't nothing stopping you now but excuses.

There is ..my art career. So far within 3 yrs I already got work in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum Of Art. That's my art being SHOWCASED.

NEW at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art - New Orleans Museum of Art

NEW at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art spotlights contemporary art recently purchased or gifted to the museum, focusing on works by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and female-identifying artists.

noma.org

 

[GooPunch]

Her family needs to gain access to her medical records and make sure everything was on the level. These doctors are real out here.

 

[Suzie]

Sky high? Compared to white women the rate is double yes. But the percentage of black women who die at childbirth is 0.000699%. Not sure that's a good reason for you and your wife not to have a kid.

The mortally rate in the us is very high. I think your numbers are off

 

[Bolzmark]

The mortally rate in the us is very high. I think your numbers are off

If you find different ones please post them. For an industrialized nation as advanced as we are medically that is high.