The article highlights a maternal mortality crisis, particularly affecting Black and Hispanic women facing complications during pregnancy and childbirth. It stresses the rising popularity of home births and birthing centers as less medicalized alternatives to hospital births. However, in New York, birthing centers are facing closures, notably in the Bronx which lacks any accessible options. This situation raises significant concerns about reproductive choices and justice, especially considering the area's high rates of severe maternal morbidity and cesarean sections among low-risk pregnancies. It advocates for broader choices in birthing options to ensure better health outcomes for mothers.
While more birthing centers have been opening across the country to address this growing demand, New York's few birthing centers are struggling and closing.
Birthing centers provide prenatal care, labor and delivery care and postnatal care through a midwifery and holistic care model geared towards women experiencing low-risk pregnancy.
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