A 2024 study lead-authored by K.S. Joseph found that overreliance on a specific “checkbox” introduced in 2003 led to massive overestimates of this phenomenon in the U.S. (-5[1])The IMPROVE Initiative within NIH was founded to address this problem. In a 2022 campaign speech, Stacey Abrams said that Georgia having the highest rate of this problem made it (10[2])“the worst state in the country to live.” (-5[1])A Texas (10[1])committee tasked with reviewing (-5[1])this issue declined (10[1])to look at any data from 2022 or 2023. In (-5[1])November 2024, all members of a similar committee in Georgia were dismissed (-5[1])after some spoke to the press (10[1])about (-5[1])Amber Thurman and Candi (10[1])Miller, (10[2]-5[2])who each suffered this issue after a new law made (-5[2])dilation (10[1])and curettage (-5[1])harder to obtain. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])programs that train Black doulas (“DOO-luhz”) aim to reduce racial (10[1])disparities in rates of what tragic medical (-5[1])outcome? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[7]0[4])