The maternal death rate for rural Black women is three times more than for rural White women
WWOMBB was born from loss, injustice, and the relentless will to survive. We are a movement led by Black and Indigenous women reclaiming our stories, our care, and our power in a system that was never built for us. This is not just advocacy — this is revolution.
WWOMBB Manifesto:
✨Inform the people about hidden and subtle practices of bias, discrimination, and neglect of care by practitioners within the healthcare system that lead to unnecessary miscarriages and accidental maternal deaths pre and post pregnancy. Bringing insight about the things
✨Educate teens, young adults, men and women about the hygiene practices and health issues of the reproductive system, how to care for their own; bringing knowledge, insight, and wisdom to the forefront of their minds to enable them to make choices that lead to prevention of reproductive diseases, miscarriages and deaths.
✨Equip women and men with the tools and resources to actively advocate for themselves, enforce their healthcare service rights, and navigate a broken healthcare system to preserve their own lives and the lives of their unborn. Our services will inspire women to take control of their reproductive health and boldly navigate a broken healthcare system with confidence and autonomy.
✨Empower women to go from being victims and statistics, to victorious champions, speaking truth to power as they face the Black & Indigenous Maternal Healthcare Crisis head on, and with self-advocacy, bring it to an end one voice at a time.
Our mission is crucial: to combat the issues that have led to alarming maternal death and miscarriage rates among two, singular groups of women within our society – Black and North American Indigenous women. There are many reasons why these women are dying or miscarrying at astronomical rates, and research and studies have shown the most egregious reasons to be discrimination, bias, racism within healthcare, and micro-aggressive practices of providers and practitioners against these groups of women, historically. Miscarriage and death rates for all women have increased since 1999, but Black and Indigenous women experience more of these tragedies at 3 to 4 times the rates of White women.
Through education, advocacy services and grassroots activism, WWOMBB & Health Advocates aims to send shock waves of change throughout the healthcare system across the country. The time is now for the collective roar of the people affected by this crisis, to be heard!
We are accepting invitations to hold our community workshops in your city! Choose from the following:
We are accepting invitations to hold our community workshops in your city! Choose from the following:
Our founder is a survivor of the current Black & North American Indigenous Women s Maternal Healthcare Crisis the United States. She endured four unexplained miscarriages back to back. She survived a septic infection after one of these miscarriages, when a doctor at an ER denied her request for life saving antibiotics, the standard of care for anyone coming into the ER complaining of fever and chills shortly after a miscarriage or birth. It wasn’t until the fourth miscarriage that she was finally diagnosed with a treatable condition that is known to cause recurrent miscarriages, after a pathologist found it on a submitted tissue sample of retained products. After diving into her own research about this condition, she found that OB doctors and specialists she was seeing failed to not only inform her of this condition, but more importantly, failed to offer her the procedures and tests that would have detect it, diagnose it and treat it.
We are accepting invitations to hold our community workshops in your city! Choose from the following:
Our founder is a survivor of the current Black & North American Indigenous Women s Maternal Healthcare Crisis the United States. She endured four unexplained miscarriages back to back. She survived a septic infection after one of these miscarriages, when a doctor at an ER denied her request for life saving antibiotics, the standard of care for anyone coming into the ER complaining of fever and chills shortly after a miscarriage or birth. It wasn’t until the fourth miscarriage that she was finally diagnosed with a treatable condition that is known to cause recurrent miscarriages, after a pathologist found it on a submitted tissue sample of retained products. After diving into her own research about this condition, she found that OB doctors and specialists she was seeing failed to not only inform her of this condition, but more importantly, failed to offer her the procedures and tests that would have detect it, diagnose it and treat it.
We are accepting invitations to hold our community workshops in your city! Choose from the following:
Our founder is a survivor of the current Black & North American Indigenous Women s Maternal Healthcare Crisis the United States. She endured four unexplained miscarriages back to back. She survived a septic infection after one of these miscarriages, when a doctor at an ER denied her request for life saving antibiotics, the standard of care for anyone coming into the ER complaining of fever and chills shortly after a miscarriage or birth. It wasn’t until the fourth miscarriage that she was finally diagnosed with a treatable condition that is known to cause recurrent miscarriages, after a pathologist found it on a submitted tissue sample of retained products. After diving into her own research about this condition, she found that OB doctors and specialists she was seeing failed to not only inform her of this condition, but more importantly, failed to offer her the procedures and tests that would have detect it, diagnose it and treat it.
Your individual donations can lead to a collective impact!
Every contribution, no matter how big or small, has the power to create push our manifesto forward, and bring change to the lives of many families. Your support allows us to continue our mission of turning the tide of the Black & Indigenous Maternal Healthcare Crisis in the U.S. Together, we’re making a tangible impact in the lives of women and men who are at risk of experiencing a preventable miscarriage or maternal death — their own or someone close to them — in their lifetime.
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Every contribution, no matter how big or small, has the power to create positive change. Your support allows us to continue our mission of changing the tide of the Black & Indigenous Maternal Healthcare Crisis in the U.S. Together, we’re making a tangible impact in the lives of women and men who are at risk of experiencing a preventable miscarriage or maternal death — their own or someone close to them — in their lifetime.
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