Posted on 10/04/2021 1:45:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Black women in California are more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than women of other races, prompting a wave of policy changes this year in the nation’s most populous state that culminated on Monday with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a new law aimed at reducing the disparity.
The law, among other things, creates a new committee within the Department of Public Health to review maternal deaths throughout the state by interviewing family members and doctors while exploring records and other reports.
California now will give lower-income women health insurance for up to one year after pregnancy instead of for two months. The state’s Medicaid program, a government-funded health insurance plan for the poor, will also now pay for doulas — trained professionals who support mothers before, during and after childbirth.
And the state is spending $35 million to help pay for programs that give low-income pregnant women monthly cash payments with no restrictions on how they can spend it.
“We’ve been nibbling at the edges, we’ve been focused on this issue for three years that I’ve had the privilege of being governor,” Newsom said Monday during a virtual bill-signing ceremony. “But this year I feel like we’ve done something that will break through.”
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More government is never the answer for anything.
Especially not problems which were caused by government in the first place.
Don’t they mean “black birthing persons”?
Are they going to mandate what they eat and exercise etc?
“Black women in California are more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than women of other races, prompting a wave of policy changes this year in the nation’s most populous state that culminated on Monday with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a new law aimed at reducing the disparity.”
I’m guessing California will try to reduce the disparity by increasing the number of deaths among non-black women. Or they will try to increase homosexual behavior, so that fewer black women will get pregnant.
They're going to get rid of all Democrat Politicians and Bureaucrats?
That'll save a lot of worthwhile black lives!
The Democrat party is bleeding Blacks.
Women are especially important to them, so they come up with
this.
If I were a Black woman I would despise them for this.
Just sayin'.
QUINNs FIRST LAW: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.
Then get them to stop having babies at 11-12 years of age, and a kid every year thereafter.
Just make it illegal for black mothers to die.
What about roll-over insurance for the baby?
A bad use of government (our) money. Backdoor reparations.
Are they going to mandate what they eat and exercise etc?
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Government CAN do better at punishing black-on-black-mom crime, but it can’t keep black moms away from abusive black boyfriends.
Are they going 5o glue their knees together?
“creates a new committee”
Of government folks drawing twice the annual salary as folks in the private sector doing the same type of work?
And who they hang with?
Attacking the root cause would be racist.
Does Newsom really think that? Because this sounds like absolute do-nothing legislation.
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