In the three years since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the human and economic toll of abortion restrictions remains staggering, impacting all women but especially women of color. IWPR’s latest estimates show [...]

Abortion bans aren’t just attacks on reproductive freedom and women’s health. They’re unpopular policy decisions with serious economic consequences. New research from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates that in the three [...]

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 [...]

Since the earliest days of the United States, Black birth workers have played a critical role in maternal health, delivering a level of care and joy Black women rarely find in the “institutional” [...]