Jodie Turner-Smith opened up about her home birth experience three months after welcoming her and Joshua Jackson’s daughter.“We had already decided on a home birth because of concerns about negative birth outcomes for Black women in America,” the actress, 33, said in British Vogue’s September 2020 issue, published on Wednesday, August 12. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of pregnancy-related deaths is more than three times greater for Black women than for white women, pointing, it seems to me, to systemic racism.”The Queen & Slim star added, “We never imagined that in the coming weeks, hospitals around the country would begin restricting who could be present in the birthing rooms, forcing mothers to.
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