Happy Mother’s Day! Your hard work supporting the rights of pregnant people, birthing people, and new families over the last weeks has made this day so much sweeter for so many families. 

The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on so many weaknesses in prenatal, birth and postpartum care. We must use this opportunity to fundamentally change a system that has disproportionately harmed black and brown pregnant people and mothers. 

I encourage you today, on Mother’s Day, to continue to support birth rights and help ensure that people everywhere have access to safe, respectful prenatal, birth and postpartum care.  

Right now, The Birthing Place, a WOC led birth center based in the Bronx, NY is working hard to get up and running so expectant parents of NYC have a new, safe, accessible birth option. The Birthing Place will provide essential prenatal, labor and postpartum support to a critically underserved area. You can support this project by donating now to The Birth Center Equity Fund--a fund created to specifically support BIPOC led birthing centers around the country--be sure to write “The Birthing Place - Bronx NY” in the memo of your donation to ensure 100% of your gift to this vital project. You can also follow their important work on Instagram and Twitter @BirthingPlaceBX and on Facebook at TheBirthingPlaceRiverdale. 

Your support has been so important to expectant and new families. Please consider donating now.