{"id":276979,"date":"2026-04-20T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:06:15","slug":"addressing-the-maternal-mortality-crisis-impacting-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276979\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the maternal mortality crisis impacting Black women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The United States is facing a crisis when it comes to the health and safety of women during childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>Black women continue to face significantly higher rates of pregnancy related health issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, Black Woman also have a higher maternal mortality rate than White, Hispanic and Asian women.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sherryann Taylor, Kaiser Permanente OBGYN, joined ARC Bakersfield to share what puts Black women at risk and what steps can be taken to save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The United States is facing a crisis when it comes to the health and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-276979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}