a fight for our lives

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If your lived experience makes reading this email difficult, please do not hesitate to protect your peace and pass on reading this message. - Tekesha {NAME}, Across communities, age, and income brackets, Black women are disproportionately impacted by the maternal mortality crisis. Our mothers, friends, sisters, and aunties are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. I refuse to accept this norm because it’s not radical to believe that we deserve better. It’s not radical to believe that Black mothers' needs must be heard, understood, and addressed. It’s not radical to believe that Black mothers should not be denied or deprived access to healthcare or medical attention. And it’s certainly not radical to believe that the health and safety of women today requires a transformative healthcare agenda. {NAME} – I’m running a campaign rooted in these beliefs… because our maternal health crisis is rooted in policy failure. This crisis – like many of the challenges facing our community – is a choice, not an accident. So if we’re going to tackle it, we need to start by electing people who will make better choices. So when I tell you that I’m fighting to rectify these injustices, I’m not making an empty promise. I’m making a choice to fight like hell for change. [{NAME}, it’s not radical to demand that our leaders look like us, have the same lived experiences as us, and make better choices for us. So if we’re going to address this epidemic for Black women, we must ELECT Black women to office. 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