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Opinion: Georgia mothers deserve better care
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As a current graduate student of social work at the University of Georgia and as someone who recently moved to the Peach State, I was absolutely shocked to learn that Georgia has a maternal health care crisis on its hands. According to the ACLU of Georgia, White mothers in Georgia are more than twice as likely to die a pregnancy-related death than White women nationally. These statistics are even more concerning for Black mothers in Georgia, who are more than six times as likely as White mothers nationally to die a pregnancy-related death.