Georgia has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the country, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics: Black women are twice as likely to die from pregnancy than a white woman.
Systemic barriers to health care access and social marginalization are just some of the reasons public health experts cite as the causes of this longstanding problem.
One of the first steps to changing those outcomes according to Bajha Jordan, the youth coordinator at SisterSong, a reproductive justice nonprofit based in Atlanta, is changing public policy around reproductive health care…