Progress for Women
"Mommas are dying across this country. Every year, we lose more mommas to maternal mortality and it's a sad fact that it's more dangerous to have a baby today than it was 25 years ago," began Congresswoman Robin Kelly.
Congresswoman Kelly, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust and member of the health subcommittee, and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee spoke surrounded by medical doctors and health advocates outside the U.S. Capitol.
"Las madres están muriendo en este país. Cada año, perdemos más madres con la mortalidad maternal y es triste que sea más peligroso tener un bebé hoy que lo fuera hace 25 años", comenzó la Congresista Robin Kelly. La Congresista Kelly, directora del Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust y miembro del subcomité de salud y la Congresista Sheila Jackson Lee hablaron rodeadas por doctores y abogados de salud fuera de U.S. Capitol.
One thing is clear from USA TODAY's investigation "Deadly deliveries": We need enforceable care protocols.
A new bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives is aimed at reducing infant and maternal mortality rates.
Representative Robin Kelly introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives that would give women who are on Medicaid longer periods of coverage to battle outrageously high rates of maternal and infant mortality in the country.
This weekend, we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, stepmothers and all the women who love and nurture us.
There will be brunches and mimosas, cards and flowers, backyard BBQs and fancy dinners. It might just be a quick call saying, "Hey mom, I love you." Each family will be celebrating their moms in their own special way.
For many of us, the days of spending this holiday with our moms have sadly passed. So, we look back with fondest and some sadness while knowing we are still loved by her even if she's gone.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) spoke out against the chaos of the second Trump administration alongside community leaders, healthcare professionals and educators yesterday at a press conference.
To Heidi House, the celebration of her toddler son's birthday Sunday was almost miraculous.
That's because House said she went into cardiac arrest at a downstate hospital when she was in labor two years ago.
While Rueger survived, his twin sister, Emery, died 11 hours after she was born. House said she had to be transferred to a different hospital that had a doctor who specialized in handling her health problems.
When our nation was founded, I would not have been able to vote or serve in Congress as a Black woman. In the years since our founding, we've come a long way toward ensuring gender equality for all Americans. However, true and lasting equality remains elusive. Women are still paid less for doing the same job as men; women-owned businesses have reduced access to capital, and transgender women still face discrimination and barriers to success.
Charles Johnson never imagined he might lose his wife, Kira, during the birth of their second child.
This was a woman who was in good shape, he said. She ran marathons. And she was going to a well-respected hospital for a routine, scheduled C-section.
"We walked into Cedars-Sinai medical center on April 12 of 2016 with a woman who was not just in good health, she was in exceptional health," Johnson testified before lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week. "We went in for what was supposed to be the happiest days of our lives and walked right into a nightmare."