April 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement marking Black Maternal Health Week:
“While this Administration is working overtime to exacerbate our maternal health crisis, I am committed to ending it. Black women across our country are three times more likely to die from pregnancy. That is unacceptable.
“We know that within the Department of Health and Human Services – now run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – the Maternal and Child Health Bureau was recently wiped out by the President, crippling our efforts to combat the maternal mortality crisis. Maryland women’s health disparities, including maternal morbidity, are higher than national averages, and with cuts like this one, we are only going backward.
“But this week is a reminder that we cannot despair. We must keep fighting. I will work every single day in the Senate – with whoever will work alongside me – to end this crisis, to protect Black mothers, and to ensure women across this country have the health care they need.”
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