Once again, all things in a vacuum.
What is the socioeconomic and marital status of these mothers and children. Is the mortality rate the same % within the same socioeconomic and marital status?
What are the ages of these mothers? First child or multiple children?
What percentage of each group is in excellent/good/poor health?
Did all receive the same prenatal care and follow prescribed protocols?
Generalizations create headlines but do not point to the specific cause and circumstance in order to attack a problem with a workable solution.
Indeed a sad state for an America that values life, but there are solutions! Let us pray the nation’s leaders may bow the knee before Almighty God and seek His wisdom to save these precious babies and preserve the health of their mothers. Amen
Also, how many have had multiple previous abortions, which can compromise the integrity of the womb? Or venereal diseases?
Even married, college-educated, middle class black women receiving prenatal care have higher rates of pregnancy complication and delivery than their white peers.
Part of this might be a biological tendency. Premature and low birth weight black infants have a higher survival rate than matched white infants, which suggests an innate biology.
I have read many accounts of white women being dismissed or misdiagnosed when they present with preeclampsia symptoms, so it must happen to black women too, and likely more often.
On average black women are more likely to be obese, diabetic, hypertensive, to have STDs, to have violent partners, and live in violent neighborhoods, to have stressful and unstable living situations, and to be unwed. Black girls in their teens have better pregnancy outcomes than women in their twenties, suggesting cumulative stress and health damage.
A campaign to improve pregnancy outcomes for black women would be an excellent thing but it would truly have to be a community reformation, not just taxpayer funded programs.