TODAY: @SenBooker and I re-introduced the MOMMIES Act to expand Medicaid coverage for birthing people & promote community-based, holistic approaches to maternity care.

Every pregnant person should be listened to and treated with dignity and respect during and after childbirth.

Our work on maternal health justice spans committees. Today @OversightDems held a hearing on Birthing While Black.

Thank you Chairwoman Maloney for hosting this critical convening.

I've taken several steps this Congress to advance our fight for maternal health justice:

A safe pregnancy should be a fundamental right.

My Justice for Incarcerated Moms Act ensures pregnant people behind the wall have the resources and support they need to birth in dignity.

BIPOC patients are more likely to die in childbirth & more likely to contract and die from COVID-19.

That's why I introduced the COVID-19 Safe Birthing Act to provide critical protections & care for pregnant people during the pandemic.

Additionally, to inform our work to confront this crisis, my colleagues and I are calling on @USGAO to investigate:

Barriers to maternal health ed & maternal care
Impact of maternal health crisis on incarcerated folks
Impact of COVID-19 on our maternal health crisis

This crisis is the direct result of structural racism & years of policy violence in our health system.

My Anti-Racism in Public Health Act would help dismantle the racist systems & practices that create the inequities that contribute to the Black maternal health crisis.