sepsis, hemorrhaging, and cardiovascular conditions. The U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate among all developed countries, with the risk being 3-4 times higher for Black women than for white women.
The CDC found that roughly 42 black women died per every 100,000 births between 2011 and 2015. A shocking statistic when compared to the maternal mortality rate of white women during the same time frame, which was 13 deaths per every 100,000 births.
“Black women do deserve better,” Senator Mitchell, who is a Black mother, said in a news release last month. “Bias, implicit or explicit, should no longer impact a woman’s ability to deliver a full-term baby or to survive childbirth.”
“I charge Black women to ask their provider before selecting an obstetrician, ‘Have you gone through implicit bias training? Because I want to increase the likelihood of my survival when delivering this baby,’” she added.
“The best studies that I’ve seen put it down to just one thing: prejudice,” Senator Elizabeth Warren stated at a forum in