If they can kill the research, they can deny the injury…

July 13 was the comment deadline for the OMB rule fight that public health advocates warned could threaten federal grant funding tied to Black women's survival. The Black Women's Health Imperative warned that the proposed changes could put health research at risk, including the work used to document maternal health inequities, medical dismissal, and barriers to care. That is the part people need to stop treating as technical.

Research is not paperwork when the subject is who dies, who gets believed, who gets counted, and who gets written out before policy is made. If the evidence becomes politically inconvenient, and the funding can be made fragile, then the question is simple: what happens to

Black women when the proof of harm becomes the first thing on the chopping block?

#BlackWomenDeserveBetter

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