Lea Webb discusses efforts to enhance maternal outcomes

This weekend on In Focus, Marisa Jacques, filling in for JoDee Kenney, sits down with State Senator Lea Webb for a dialog on girls’s well being. Webb talked about her historical past in activism within the Southern Tier, and her curiosity in well being care coverage, having earned a level in neuroscience at Binghamton College. Earlier than being elected to the Senate, Webb served as the primary Black Binghamton Metropolis Council Member. The senator talked about her work in serving to girls enter the sector of politics, to convey their experiences and keenness to the electoral course of.

Webb additionally mentioned her work in coverage to enhance maternal outcomes. Information from the New York State Division of Well being reveals Black girls are 5 occasions extra prone to die of a pregnancy-related trigger than white girls, and Webb mentioned she is sponsoring laws to reverse that development. One invoice would broaden entry to doula companies for Medicaid recipients, that Webb mentioned would supply assist and schooling throughout being pregnant and start, in addition to post-partum. The senator additionally talked a few invoice requiring a reproductive well being fairness evaluation as a part of the approval course of for hospital mergers. Webb mentioned a chunk of laws that would supply additional protections for reproductive well being practitioners from going through prosecution in different states.

You may watch half two of the interview with State Senator Lea Webb within the video participant above. Part one can be found here. And make sure you tune in for a glance inside the most important points impacting upstate New York, on In Focus with JoDee Kenney — each Sunday on Spectrum Information 1.