Below is an analysis written by the Oakland Better Birth Foundation, Nia Healing Center for Birth and Family Life, and Better Birth Association, all Black-led organizations, and signed by various BIPOC birth professionals. Their document takes the reader through the bill section by section highlighting
We refuse to accept the VBAC & birth autonomy restrictions that CMA & ACOG inserted into this bill that disproportionately affect BIPOC communities. Get Informed: read our open letter to supporters, read the bill, call your Assembly member on the B&P. Only calls and speaking
CFAM recognizes the harm that systematic racism plays in health outcomes for Black mothers and babies. We believe that community midwifery care can be part of the solution to devastatingly high rates of infant and maternal mortality in Black communities. But in order for midwifery
