; Whereas, in 2023, the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations expressed similar concerns as CERD and further recommended that the United States take measures to remove restrictive and discriminatory legal and practice barriers to midwifery care, including those affecting Black and Indigenous peoples; Whereas a fair distribution of resources, especially with regard to reproductive health care services, is critical to closing the racial disparity gap; Whereas an investment must be made in robust, quality, and comprehensive health care for Black birthing people, and policies that support and promote affordable, holistic maternal health care that is free from gender and racial discrimination; Whereas it is fitting and proper on Black Midwives Day to recognize the tremendous impact of the human rights, reproductive justice, and birth justice frameworks on protecting and advancing the rights of Black birthing people; Whereas Black Midwives Day is an opportunity to acknowledge the fight to end maternal mortality locally and globally; Whereas maternal health is intractably linked to infant health and the United States infant mortality rate rose 3 percent from a rate of 5.44 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2021 to 5.60 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, the largest increase in the infant mortality rate in two decades; and Whereas Congress must mitigate the effects of systemic and structural racism, to ensure that all Black people have access to midwives, doulas, and other community-based, culturally matched perinatal health providers: Now, therefore, be it