Black women are more likely to experience infertility than white women. They're less likely to get help, too

The desire to control Black women's fertility can be traced back to chattel slavery and was borne from a bevy of racist ideas the most pervasive being that Black women can reproduce easily.

There's a real dichotomy between perceptions of women of color who just have too many babies, and white women whose ability to have babies we need to assist and support.

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