Louisiana Activists Draw Links Between Petrochemical, Climate Harm to Maternal Health

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Click to expand Image Kaitlyn Joshua with her daughter, Lauryn, age 5, outside their home in Geismar, Ascension Parish, in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. Joshua, a chronic asthma sufferer since childhood, said her physician told her, “Kaitlyn, it’s where you live. It’s the air quality.

You’re going to have to move out of there.” October 20, 2023. © 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch Louisiana feminist activists came together on October 2 at the annual Black Birth Matters conference to demand that…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · October 8, 2026

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