Johnson is campaigning for legislative change as part of the comprehensive, community-informed Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, which addresses a host of issues, including social determinants of health, expanding Medicare and Medicaid for every mother in the country to a year postpartum and helping incarcerated women who give birth in private prisons. It's making sure that we're informing and centering these experiences, that we're giving families a path towards hope and what they can do to make sure they have a wonderful, dignified birthing experience." He is delighted when people hear his story and feel motivated to ask difficult questions, seek out alternative care, or engage a midwife or doula. Johnson says he shares his story to educate, not scare. Johnson's wife, Kira, passed away in 2016 from internal hemorrhaging after a routine C-section following the birth of the couple's second child - despite repeated pleas to medical staff and physicians to examine her.
Informed by the political, the personal, and a whole load of stats, "Born Free" is a comprehensive guide to the myriad issues surrounding childbirth today, which includes the criminalization of pregnant women, 34% of birthing people in the US describing their births as "traumatic" and an increasingly medicalized approach to pregnancy and labor in recent years.įather-of-two Charles Johnson is the founder 4Kira4Moms, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating maternal mortality. Everything below that is also awful." So, what is going on with childbirth in the US today? "She and I were discussing that it's been 15 years, and it's gotten a lot worse." She went on to say, "It's the canary in the coal mine if you take maternal mortality as the lens that we look at women's health in general through, this is the biggest red flag there is. "Ricki's been really supportive," James-Martinez told Insider. The release of "Born Free" coincides with the 15-year anniversary of another seminal birthing documentary, "The Business of Being Born," produced by Ricki Lake.
James-Martinez crosses the country with her all-female crew, interviewing families, doctors, doulas, midwives, activists, politicians, and lawyers, including Every Mother Counts' Christy Turlington, Senator Tammy Duckworth, and Chanel Porchia-Albert, founder of Ancient Song Doula Services.
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