Guest Commentary: Keeping Mothers — and Their Babies — Alive

Since the 1980s, maternal mortality rates have risen in the United States. When you extrapolate the data based on race, the safe delivery of a newborn gets more complicated. In a city like Philadelphia, with a majority-Black population, Black women made up 43 percent of births in Philadelphia from 2013 to 2018 but accounted for … Continue reading Guest Commentary: Keeping Mothers — and Their Babies — Alive