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After feeling rushed, neglected and ignored while giving birth to her first two children in Texas, Mimi Evans took a major detour when she learned she was pregnant with her third. She purchased a 32-foot RV and drove 1,300 miles to live near a Virginia hospital until it was time to give birth. “I was given so much choice, so much freedom and it was just such a much more pleasant experience,” she told TODAY.com. “I definitely felt like I made the right decision.” Black women are two to three times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy- or birth-related complications than white women, according to government data. "It was the kind of sacrifice I had to make," Evans said of her trek. Continue reading. 

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