Adrienne Prentice, co-founder of MotherNation, wrote an op-ed about the disparity in health care for mothers in Washington, DC where “the maternal death rates are DOUBLE the national rates and nearly 75% of District mothers who died of complications from pregnancy, labor and childbirth between 2014 and 2016 were African-American. And at least 50% of maternal deaths are considered preventable.” Read the op-ed>>