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Tori Bowie's death and terrifying experience for 2 of her gold-medal-winning teammates reflect health issues Black women face (ca.sports.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nationally, the CDC found that Black women in 2021 were 2.6 times more likely than white women to die due to pregnancy or childbirth. Even financial status and education don't help. A groundbreaking, decade-long study published this year looked at two million births in California and found that even the wealthiest Black mothers and babies have a disproportionately higher risk of death than the wealthiest non-Black mothers and babies.

This is insane.