Whereas Bump Day, an annual global campaign that celebrates beautiful bumps and healthy pregnancies while raising awareness about and calling for action to address the urgent need for better, more accessible, more respectful, and more responsive maternal health care, promoting healthy pregnancies, safe births, and healthy babies in the United States and around the world; Whereas the World Health Organization estimates approximately 810 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day around the world; Whereas 80 percent of all maternal deaths in the United States and worldwide are preventable; Whereas over 700 women in the United States die each year from pregnancy- and childbirth-related complications and about 70,000 women suffer near-fatal complications or serious lifelong health-consequences, including permanent disability; Whereas women in the United States are more likely to die from childbirth or pregnancy-related complications than women in all other high-income countries, and the United States is the only high-income nation in the world where maternal mortality is currently increasing; Whereas 1 in 5 deliveries globally happen without the presence of a skilled birth attendant; Whereas 1 in 7 infants in the United States are born to a woman receiving inadequate prenatal care; Whereas pregnant women who do not receive prenatal care during pregnancy in the United States are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications; Whereas Black and American Indian/Alaska Native women in the United States are 2 to 3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes compared to White women; Whereas, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the maternal mortality rate for Hispanic women surged during the COVID–19 pandemic, surpassing that for White women for the first time in more than a decade