Rep. Underwood and Rep. Adams working to address Black maternal health

Giving birth to a child is supposed to be one of the happiest moments in a parent’s life, but for many Black women in America, childbirth can be deadly. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, death from pregnancy-related complications has gone up in recent years, from 861 deaths in 2020, to 1,205 deaths in 2021.  What You Need To Know According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, death from pregnancy-related complications has gone up in recent years, from 861 deaths in 2020, to 1,205 deaths in 2021 Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women Rep. Lauren Underwood began working to address the Black maternal mortality rate shortly after her election in 2019 Rep. Underwood and Rep. Alma Adams hope to address all aspects of the maternal health crisis through a package of 13 bills. They call the “Momnibus” Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It has actively gotten more dangerous in the United States for women to give birth in our country. And that should never be...