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Apr 17, 12 tweets

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Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.

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Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality


Black Maternal Health Week is recognized each year from April 11-17 to bring attention and action in improving Black maternal health.

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A Proclamation on Black Maternal Health Week, 2024 [APRIL 10, 2024]


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Vice President @KamalaHarris has helped elevate the critical issue of Black maternal health to a national priority, calling on states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from two months to one year

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@KamalaHarris I have often challenged Trump and so-called leaders in states who say that an abortion ban is in the best interest of women and children yet stay silent on maternal mortality.

The hypocrisy abounds.

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@KamalaHarris During Black Maternal Health Week and every day, President Biden and I will continue to uplift this crisis and commit to taking urgent action to protect our nation's mothers and families.

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@KamalaHarris Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Reproductive Freedoms Organizing Event [April 15, 2024]


- whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

@KamalaHarris When Donald Trump ripped away Roe v. Wade, he ripped away a fundamental right granted to you as an American—it didn’t matter where you lived.

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@KamalaHarris Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications in the United States.

During Black Maternal Health Week, we must speak truth about this crisis as we continue the fight to protect our nation's mothers and children.

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@KamalaHarris The pictures from the previous post.


@KamalaHarris Trump is the reason millions of Arizonans will soon live under an even more extreme abortion ban which fails to protect women even when their health is at risk or in tragic cases of rape or incest.

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