This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the U.S. for Black Mothers to Give Birth

This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the U.S. for Black Mothers to Give Birth

This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the Fund for Reporting on Child Well-being. HOUSTON — By the third trimester of an already difficult pregnancy, Moriah Ballard faced two new complications: relentless headaches and dizziness. Over the previous 31 weeks, she had already collapsed three times and noticed blood in her urine. E…