{"id":10256,"date":"2021-11-23T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10256"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:59:17","slug":"u-s-house-passes-sen-ossoff-backed-provision-to-improve-maternal-health","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/u-s-house-passes-sen-ossoff-backed-provision-to-improve-maternal-health\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Passes Sen. Ossoff-Backed Provision to Improve Maternal Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a provision backed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff to improve maternal health and curb maternal mortality rates in Georgia and nationwide \u2013\u2013 a crisis that disproportionately impacts Black women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgia\u2019s maternal mortality rate ranks among the worst in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/she-was-told-you-might-die-right-childbirth-probe-of-georgias-maternal-mortality\">Georgia Public Broadcasting<\/a>, Black women are nearly three times more likely to die during childbirth than white women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe shockingly high&nbsp;maternal&nbsp;mortality rate for Black women in Georgia is a travesty. It is unacceptable for any mother to suffer or die because she lacks proper care, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m urging my colleagues to address&nbsp;maternal&nbsp;mortality for Black women in Georgia,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vitalsigns\/maternal-deaths\/index.html\">According to the CDC<\/a>, nearly two-thirds of maternal deaths occur during or after pregnancy, increasing the need for stronger preventative and postpartum care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a provision backed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff to improve maternal health and curb maternal mortality rates in Georgia and nationwide \u2013\u2013 a crisis that disproportionately impacts Black women. Georgia\u2019s maternal mortality rate ranks among the worst in the nation. According to&nbsp;Georgia Public Broadcasting, Black [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10256","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10256\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}