Kansas City Star Wins AABC 2022 Media Award

kansas city star gains national recognition for their coverage of women's health.

The American Association of Birth Centers have awarded the 2022 National media Award to Anna Spoerre of the Kansas City Star. This award honors those who have supported birth centers at an exemplary level in their field. 

This national recognition has been awarded for their coverage in Women’s Health, which ranges from the history or birth segregation, doulas, birth equity, APRN Full Practice Authority, maternal mortality rates, birth centers, and more recently the Roe V Wade trigger law in Missouri, and the Kansas Constitution amendment primary election.

We are grateful to the Kansas City Star for using their platform to continue to raise issues pertaining to birth and women’s health. Congratulations to Anna Spoerre and the Kansas City Star for this achievement.