Disparities in Maternal Health Symposium Resources

Newspaper and Journal Articles

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1. Reproductive Justice Includes Access to Safe Drinking Water: Sarah Sloat, yesmagazine.  https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2023/01/12/pregnancy-clean-drinking-water
2. For Black Women, Reproductive Justice Is About More than High-Risk Pregnancies. https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/04/02/black-women-fertility-reproductive-justice
3. American Indian and Alaska Native Maternal and Infant Mortality: Challenges and Opportunities.  https://americanprogress.org/article/american-indian-alaska-native-maternal-infant-mortality-challenges-opportunities/
4. Program aims to reduce mortality rates for at-risk new mothers - CT Plus - UT Southwestern
5. Raising Awareness of Texas’ Dire Black Maternal Health Statistics - United Way of Metropolitan Dallas (unitedwaydallas.org)
6. http://19thnews.org/2023/10/medical-exceptions-abortion-bans-mental-health-conditions

Books

• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
• Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument For Reproductive Justice by Rebecca Tod Peters
• A Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock, MD

Websites:

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/maternal-child-health/maternal-mortality-morbidity-review-committee

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/health-equity/minority-health

https://www.ihs.gov/mch/

https://www.yesmagagzine.org

Pregnancy Justice: https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/

https://19thnews.org/about/

https://cdc.gov

Black Maternal Health Momnibus | Black Maternal Health Caucus (house.gov)

Dallas Healthy Start | Parkland Health

Abide Women's Health Services

https://www.tarrantcountytx.gove/en/public-health/family-health-services.html

https://www.dentoncounty.gov/643/Public-Health

https://www.collincountytx.gov/Services/Health-Care-Services

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/maternal-child-health/healthy-texas-mothers-babies

Documentaries

• Aftershock- The Documentary (2022) – Hulu                 Hulu.com/movie/aftershock-c1414fdf-0741-4bd2-b62c-554db3d8f643

Printed Handouts

• Why Delighted to Doula? 
• Texas Impact Issue Brief 2023 Abortion: Restore Women’s Bodily Autonomy
• Pregnancy-Related Deaths Among American Indian or Alaska Native Persons: Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees in 36 US States, 2017–2019
• Reproductive Justice Includes Access to Safe Drinking Water
• Texas’ maternal mortality rate remains above national average as help sought

from Congress

• American Indian and Alaska Native Maternal and Infant Mortality: Challenges and Opportunities