Local mom, activist fighting for birthing rights in Augusta

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – We’ve instructed you concerning the rising maternal well being disaster.

One out of 5 pregnancy-related deaths is preventable, and Black girls are going through a better threat.

We sat down with one girl who’s pushing to present girls the fitting to decide on the place and the way they provide start.

Nonetheless, her plan is going through an enormous roadblock. Katie Chub is a mom, an entrepreneur, and an activist.

“I’m prepared to go all the way in which to the Supreme Courtroom to get girls’s rights. The nice outdated boys membership isn’t any match for millennial girls,” she mentioned.

She’s preventing for a free-standing start middle in Augusta so girls can have extra choices and an expertise much like what she had giving start to her first baby.

Licensed nurse midwives, extra pure practices, and extra reasonably priced births for all girls, particularly these with low-risk pregnancies.

“OBGYNs can tackle the upper threat sufferers. We’ll take the lower-risk sufferers. They’ll focus extra of their intentions on the upper threat, and any issues that come up. They’ll have all of their consideration. We’ll take the decrease threat,” mentioned Chub.

However her roadblock is Georgia’s Certificates of Want Program which requires a switch settlement with a neighborhood hospital. Whereas she’s greater than prepared to work with hospitals right here in Augusta, she will’t get permission.

“We entered right into a contract with a neighborhood physician who has admission privileges in any respect three hospitals, and the federal government nonetheless mentioned no,” mentioned Chub.

Now working with Pacific Authorized Basis, Chub continues to be pushing to convey the start middle to Augusta regardless of her challenges.

“On the finish of the day, the hospitals view us as competitors. We now have been opposed from opening out of competitors, not out of security,” she mentioned.

All to convey girls another choice.

“It’s girls’s alternative, it’s household’s alternative as properly,” mentioned Chub.

Chub’s work continues with the Pacific Authorized Basis, hoping to struggle again towards Georgia’s Certificates of Want Regulation.

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