Takeaways: The Missouri House stands poised to pass a bill largely prohibiting city and county jails from shackling women in their third trimester of a pregnancy. In state prisons in Missouri and 39 other states, the practice is already banned. The legislation would extend that rule to city and county jails. The bill, sponsored by […]
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What’s driving the high maternal mortality rate for women of color in Kansas?
The pair would like to see better health insurance coverage of doulas and action from the state to study the problem more closely, examining whether women of color are dying due to systemic racism that causes health care systems to treat them differently.