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Campaign Pledges $100M to Halve U.S. Maternal Deaths
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— Sep 10, 2026
A Walton-backed bipartisan initiative, Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, pledges $100 million over five years to cut the U.S. maternal mortality rate in half by 2031, prioritizing rural access, midwife training, postpartum care, and improved data collection with state matching to scale impact. The campaign also supports bipartisan legislation and aims to surface political will for maternal health reform by coordinating with states and health systems to implement proven improvements.
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Midwife Fined $300,000 for What She Did After Giving Kids Strange Pellets
Reporting
— Jan 27, 2024
A Long Island midwife has been found liable for falsifying vaccine records and giving schoolchildren homeopathic pellets instead of vaccinations. Nearly 1,500 children across the state were affected by what the New York…
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Midwife Fined $300,000 After Allegedly Falsifying Vaccination Records of More Than 1,000 Kids
Reporting
— Jan 18, 2024
A midwife was fined $300,000 after she allegedly falsified vaccination records for thousands of children. Jeanette Breen of Baldwin, New York , was fined after it was discovered that she had administered 12,449…
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Lesotho expands male midwife workforce to curb deaths
Health
— Aug 30, 2026
Lesotho is increasingly recruiting male midwives to expand the skilled birth attendant workforce and bring care closer to rural communities, a shift that supports a target to cut maternal deaths and is already seeing higher shares of births attended by trained providers. While male midwives face cultural barriers, outreach efforts and visible role models like Sehloho Ntlhane are slowly normalizing the profession and expanding access for women in remote areas.
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Washington State’s Supreme Court Just Struck Down A Voter-Backed Pro-Natural Gas Measure
Paris Apodaca · 4 min · 2h