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Guest Commentator

Miriam Padilla

BC Guest Commentator Miriam Padilla is a mother on a mission and a Latina activist who lives in Olympia, Wash. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Guest Commentary

Repercussions of Black Maternal Mortality: Aftershock

By Miriam Padilla Guest Commentator

A Black woman having a baby is like a Black man being stopped by the police.”

The United States is the most dangerous country in the industrialized world to have a child or be pregnant. And, conditions are much worse in Black…

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