Zohran Mamdani: “My administration will provide new mothers with baby baskets…”

“The racism that clouded the birth control movement permeated deep into maternal health. To this day, we reckon with the lasting toll it inflicted. We have the power to stop this suffering. My administration will provide new mothers with baby baskets proven to improve health outcomes and expand home visit programs to coordinate postpartum care and will make midwives and doula care more accessible. After Fania Mindel was driven to jail, I imagine a heavy silence hung low here at 46Amboy Street. It was the silence of a question unanswered.” (02:12–02:23)

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