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Harriet Garner's avatar

American Descendants of Slavery have historically been denied basic Healthcare. We weren't expected to survive Slavery, Jim Crows, domestic terrorism, and systemic racism.

Watch "Thom Hartmann presents The Hidden History of American Healthcare" on YouTube

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M.A. Dennis's avatar

A doctor at a hospital (named after the mountain Moses received the 10 Commandments on) told my children’s mother that she had to “reduce” her triplets to one to ensure a “safe” pregnancy. She listened to them, at first, but she says while sitting in waiting room on scheduled day of procedure, “a voice” told her: GO HOME. That was in 2001. Our triplets will turn 23 this year! I wonder if a non-black woman carrying triplets would be so casually advised to terminate 2 of her 3 babies, or would the doctor first exhaust every possible option in hopes of saving the triplets?

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