NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Maternity care for Black women needs to be radically improved so that other pregnant women do not end up dying like 2016 Olympic relay champion Tori Bowie, track and field's most decorated woman Allyson Felix said on Thursday.
loading"Three gold medalists from that 4x100 relay team in Rio set out to become mothers.
All three of us — all Black women — had serious complications," Felix, who collected seven Olympic gold medals during her career, wrote in Time magazine.
"This is America, in 2023, and Black women are dying while giving birth.
"I’m hopeful that Tori, who stood on the podium at Rio, gold around her neck and sweetness in her soul, won’t die in vain."
Persons:
Tori Bowie, Allyson Felix, Bowie, Felix, Tianna Madison, —, we're, Tori, Amy Tennery
Organizations:
YORK, Rio, U.S, Olympic, Thomson
Locations:
Rio, United States, America, New York