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“I Thought I Was Going to Die”: Why Black Mothers Like Me Are Still Fighting to Be Heard in Labor and Delivery Rooms

Summary by Sheen Magazine
When Karrie Jones’s labor video went viral in November 2025, I felt it in my chest. The footage from Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas showed what too many Black women know intimately: the terror of being in active labor while staff make you wait. Karrie sat in that waiting room visibly distressed, clearly in pain, for a prolonged period of time. Her baby was born just 12 minutes after she was finally admitted to labor and delive…
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Sheen Magazine broke the news in on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
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