{"id":1382098,"date":"2023-12-09T18:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5281955e1913600536c1fb2ff887769f"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:53:53","slug":"being-black-and-pregnant-in-the-deep-south-can-be-a-dangerous-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/09\/being-black-and-pregnant-in-the-deep-south-can-be-a-dangerous-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Black and Pregnant in the Deep South Can Be a Dangerous Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O&rsquo;laysha Davis was a few weeks shy of her due date when in mid-August she decided it was time to switch doctors. Davis had planned to give birth at a small community hospital about 20 minutes from her home in North Charleston, South Carolina. But that changed when her medical team started repeatedly calling her cellphone and pressuring her to come to the hospital and deliver the baby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/being-black-and-pregnant-in-the-deep-south-can-be-a-dangerous-combination\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/being-black-and-pregnant-in-the-deep-south-can-be-a-dangerous-combination\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina&#8217;s Black infant mortality rate increased by nearly 40 percent from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52068,71977,339,33860,4,71978,1272],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26021"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382099,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382098\/revisions\/1382099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}