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CA lawmakers, hospitals step up efforts to protect lives of Black women during childbirth

Por: ABC7 Health October 31, 2023

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.I stood alongside a coalition of advocates, medical professionals, and Black women who had been working for years to get meaningful legislation passed to save lives, said Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell.In 2019, Mitchell, then a state senator, authored a California law that requires all perinatal health care providers undergo anti-implicit-bias training. It went into effect in 2020.Unfortunately, we've learned that... + full article



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