{"id":200660,"date":"2026-04-17T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:58:31","slug":"health-disparities-during-black-maternal-health-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200660\/","title":{"rendered":"Health disparities during Black Maternal Health Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this Black Maternal Health Week, the focus is on why Black women are five times more likely to die due to pregnancy-related causes than white women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A bill introduced in Albany aims to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/S845\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The \u201cMaternal Health, Dignity and Consent Act\u201d<\/a> is sponsored by state Sen. Julia Salazar. Its aim is to help instill trust between pregnant Black women and their doctors, which has been historically lacking within this community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stacy Sun, a Rochester-based OB-GYN, discussed the underlying reasons for the disparity in mortality rates between pregnant white and Black women with Capital Tonight host Susan Arbetter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During this Black Maternal Health Week, the focus is on why Black women are five times more likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,2952,109,116,204,202,2953,4429,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,201,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-200660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-health","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","13":"tag-capital-tonight","14":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-new-york-state","21":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","22":"tag-new-york-state-news","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-susan-arbetter","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}