Foundation in the News

Podcast Interview: Tatia | Shared by Maddy Oden

Birth Stories in Color | 12/11/2018
Maddy shares her story about Tatia in this podcast interview with Birth Stories in Color, a group dedicated to creating a community for people of color to share and learn from birth stories of all types.

Serena Williams Pregnancy and the US Healthcare System

Witnessing Greatness Sports Podcast | 4/1/18
This article corresponds to Episode 58 of the Podcast series that details Serena Williams’ birth experience, discusses maternal and infant mortality, and specifically focuses on and black women’s experiences with the U.S. healthcare system. Maddy and Tatia’s story serves to illuminate the fight for mandatory informed consent for all drugs used in childbirth.

Maternally Yours | 10/23/2012
Editor of Maternally Yours discusses maternal mortality in the United States. The article talks about how maternal mortality rates have doubled in the past twenty years and why it’s more dangerous to give birth in the United States than in 49 other nations.

Lamaze International – Science & Sensibility Blog | Henci Goer| 5/9/2010
Editor Henci Goer, of Lamaze International- Science & Sensibility, talks about the time she argued against ACOG’s current position on inducing labor with Misoprostol. She then further discusses her education and research on the issue of childbirth safety.

SF Gate | Nathanael Johnson | 2/3/2010
This is a reprint of the story from California Watch; Nathanael Johnson discusses the increasing maternal mortality rate in California women and C-section increase; along with real stories and how we can help the issue.

Perinatal Pro | 4/18/2009
Bloggers and Websites are standing with The Melanie Stokes MOTHERS Act and are asking people to call their Senators with support for S324. The request also involves viewers adding their name to the state by state constitution petition, which the Tatia Oden French Foundation signed.

Tatia DC Event: Role of the Birthing Community in Improving U.S. Maternity Care

Doula Chronicles | Efe Osaren | 4/26/2018
This blog features a video of Maddy’s May 2017 D.C. event that focused on the role of the birthing community in improving U.S. Maternity Care and provides further information about the event and black maternal health.

Podcast Interview: Tatia | Shared by Maddy Oden

There’s No Success Story Texas Can Follow To Stop Black Mothers From Dying

NPR Austin | Ashley Lopez | 2/22/2018
In this third article in a three-part series by Austin’s NPR station, the issue of racial disparity in U.S. maternal care is explored. Maddy’s story is featured to shed light on racism that exists in U.S. maternal care. Elliott Main, Director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, discusses how while California has successfully reduced their rates of maternal mortality, the gap between white and black women still remains such as in Texas it is 10 times higher and in New York it is 12 times higher. Danielle Turner, a physician’s assistant and doula, states that one of the reasons black women may fare worse during pregnancy is that “sometimes medical professionals don’t really listen to black women.

National Parenting Tips Radio | 2012
Shanta interviewed Maddy Oden, Mother of Tatia Oden and founder of The Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation, on the topic of maternal mortality.

Amnesty International – Human Rights Now Blog |Jason Disterhoft | 4/16/2010
San Francisco hosted AIUSA’s maternal health speakers tour where Maddy Oden, founder of the Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation, shared the intimate story of the loss of her daughter, Tatia, after an induced labor at a respected San Francisco Bay Area hospital.

Conscious Woman
Conscious Woman’s blogger, Raquel, shares Maddy Oden’s story about her daughter, Tatia Oden French, and the Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation.

SF Gate | Bernadette Tansey | 6/9/2005
Tansey reports about the online initiative to get federal drug regulators to warn against Cytotec. The reporter shares Maddy Oden’s story and information about Drug Watch, a bill that aims to ensure patients are supplied with easy to understand drug safety information.

Experts Urge Support of Bills to Combat Maternal Mortality

MedPage Today | Molly Walker | 4/19/2018
This article summarizes the Capitol Hill briefing that the Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation hosted on Thursday, April 19, in an effort to urge lawmakers to pass H.R. 1318 (Preventing Maternal Deaths Act) and of S. 1112 (Maternal Health Accountability Act). The briefing featured Anne Loirette of Timéo et les Autres, Jennie Joseph of Commonsense Childbirth and creator of The JJ Way (via a pre-recorded video), Dr. Michael Lu of George Washington University, Shanna Cox of CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health, and Claudia Booker, a certified midwife.

Café Mom
Patti of Café Mom, urges women to sign the FDA Petition that the Tatia Oden French Foundation has created. The statement includes supporting evidence of the dangers of Cytotec and the lack of informed consent on part of obstetricians, gynecologists, nurses, and other health providers.

Cytotec and the FDA

Midwifery Today | Ina May Gaskin | 2013
Founder and Editor of Midwifery Today, Ina May Gaskin, investigated the safety of the drug Cytotec. The report details the dangers of Cytotec with supporting evidence from two established stories and several anecdotes from victims.

Mothers Advocate Blog | 10/18/2010
Maddy Oden was interviewed by Mothers Advocate Blog, on her experience with maternal mortality, the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project and what steps are needed to be taken to stay informed.

California Watch | Nathanael Johnson | 4/4/2010
Nathanael Johnson discusses the increasing maternal mortality rate in California women and C-section increase; along with real stories and how we can help the issue.

The Washington Times | 5/8/2006
Grass-roots women’s group, The Women Educating Cytotec Awareness Nationwide, decided upon the American College of Gynecologists and Obstetrician conference to protest Cytotec. Maddy Oden is quoted throughout the article against the use of Cytotec.

The Berkeley Daily Planet | 1/4/2002
This is the obituary that was written about Tatia Malika Oden when she passed away.