An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis. Directors Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee follow Gibson’s and Isaac’s bereaved partners, Omari Maynard and Bruce McIntyre, as they fight for justice and build communities of support, bonding especially with other surviving Black fathers. Their tragic, individual experiences are punctuated with condemning historical context, showing that gynecology has a long-standing history of exploiting and neglecting Black women in America. In the arresting words of mother-to-be Felicia Ellis, “A Black woman having a baby is like a Black man at a traffic stop with the police.” She emphasizes that paying attention is paramount. Aftershock brings an unsettling reality to the forefront while uplifting the families, activists, and birth workers who are striving to bring institutional change and legislative reform. These mothers will not be forgotten.
在美国，有色人种不仅仅指黑人。黑人是有色人种中，人数最庞大的一族。 其他如：拉美、亚裔…族群又当如何？！ 需要改变的不是制度，而是促成制度的资本！！！ 资本无处不在！！！
看完本片我意识到种族歧视远不止新闻中出现那些，而存在于社会的每个角落。其复杂性在于和经济利益深度捆绑，强大如美国也始终无法解决这个问题，何况其他国家，包括看本片的我们。
黑人产妇的死亡率是白人的二到四倍，美国的剖腹产率是32%，因为剖腹产用时更短平均45分钟，顺产需要8-12个小时。剖腹产的费用比顺产高50%左右，医院倾向于哪一个很容易决定。但是剖腹产是大手术，很容易引起并发症。科技驱动利益驱使，生产就是一门生意，如何更快更有效率。过度医疗和没有经验的实习医生，就是直接原因。Birth center确实很好，就是贵。从个体悲剧，到社区帮助，一直到引起国会注意，能看到问题，能面对问题，能有步骤有方法的解决问题，就依然有希望。想起之前看的一本书里面，如果男的也需要生孩子，生育的很多痛苦和风险早就解决了。
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b站，雪曼尼的妈妈Shawnee看服饰谈吐是出身比较好的黑人，去搜了下NYU毕业的，绝对的true elite，但是不妨碍医务人员看见肤色就默认她女儿是瘾君子。查了下实际上18、19、20这三年孕妇死亡率一直都在大幅度增高，推翻罗诉韦德案还有新冠的影响肯定都是很大的，只是这里没有讨论。不过黑人妇女每10万活产死亡人数18年是33人，20年是55人，白人女性差不多是从10出头涨到小20，绝对数字来看最后归结到BLM上也没毛病。看了下中国主要还是地区差异，南方沿海上比欧洲，欠发达地区下比非洲。https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-02-23/u-s-maternal-mortality-rate-surged-in-2020