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The rapid erosion of the maternity care infrastructure in the United States threatens to worsen the ongoing Black maternal health crisis and will increase the demand and need for birth workers, including midwives and doulas.
This brief is part of IWPR’s Birthing While Black series. Click here to see the full series.