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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.
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个案到数据到政治。技术上我怎么觉得这个数据背后还有深挖的余地呢。感觉现在的套路就是，用政治来发现问题，解决问题还是靠金钱。结尾的高级套房就是解决方案？
吉普森母亲给人印象很深刻，任何可以发声的场合她都会努力发声，并且是发自内心的，充满力量的，每当私下和人讨论起女儿又是脆弱的，无力的，哀痛的。
一切都是种族带来的问题，但是种族的问题谁能解决？ 上帝都解决不了。
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。
唉黑人确实有够惨，都不能相信医院和医疗体系。本片从两个孕妇家庭生产致死角度入手，捕捉到医疗系统对待黑人不平等的systematic failure. 再到后面的advocacy，喊的声音够响就能推动华盛顿那帮人出台法律保障弱势群体权益。最终还是得自掏腰包花40k住私人生产中心，真心没有多少家庭负担得起呀，更别说少数族裔。
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