Research shows that it's common for Black women to start fertility treatment after experiencing infertility for multiple years, whereas their white counterparts usually seek care sooner.
"Infertility, diagnostic evaluation and treatment are one of the few areas of medicine that is not universally covered by insurance," Jackson-Bey explained."That creates a really large gap in terms of who is able to access care and who is not.”"I had heard about IVF from the beginning, but I was afraid of it," she said."First of all, the way that IVF is marketed traditionally is that it's something that rich people do. It's something that white people do. ..
to cover additional costs. Townsend has since started her own advocacy organization, The Broken Brown Egg, which provides grants to people in similar situations.'The myth assigned to us' There are"the stereotypes and historical context of African Americans in this country as breeders,” Townsend said." think only white women need ."
“When I first knew there was an issue with my period, I was for hours to be seen, and then when I was seen, it was, ‘Well, here’s some birth control pills. That’ll stop it.’ Nobody was actually looking at the actual issue.”contribute to a general mistrust in the health care system among Black women and can result in them delaying fertility care.
Jackson-Bey said another step toward decreasing the gap is for states to follow New York and 18 other states in"The sooner more and more states can either have this access, or it'd be very nice to have a federal mandate for this access, the sooner we can at least start to close some of those economic gaps," Jackson-Bey said.
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