
ALT A light green asset with dark green accents, with "NEW Birthful EPISODE" and title "Supporting Healthy Families in the U.S.: Has Anything Changed?" above a picture of Dr. Monica McLemore, a Black woman with short dark textured hair wearing black-framed glasses and dangly earrings, to the left of a white textbox with a quoted passage that reads "It's important that we think about the ways in which we treat pregnant, capable people in childbearing families. It's a barometer for our morality and how we are willing to care for– or not care for– members in our society."
![Dr. Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, a Black woman with short dark textured hair, wearing dangly earrings and glasses with black frames, smiles at the camera, positioned above a purple text box with yellow-green quotation mark and passage in white text that reads "[B]irthing people are sacred and the most tired people in the planet who are making the largest role transition that they probably will have in their lives [...] if we're going to reform, we need a whole lot of other people dealing with this than childbearing families" above the BirthSwell logo.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGIGZWZXwAMKujb.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT Dr. Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, a Black woman with short dark textured hair, wearing dangly earrings and glasses with black frames, smiles at the camera, positioned above a purple text box with yellow-green quotation mark and passage in white text that reads "[B]irthing people are sacred and the most tired people in the planet who are making the largest role transition that they probably will have in their lives [...] if we're going to reform, we need a whole lot of other people dealing with this than childbearing families" above the BirthSwell logo.









