Posted on 04/17/2022 1:50:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that 71% of black babies are born out of wedlock.
A diet of soda and chips would be terrible. Hope they and their babies were OK.
The program you were in sounds wonderful. The Catholic program I found was a blessing to my baby and me, too, so many years ago.
Oh, puh-LEEEZE!
Well, I don’t know how much deadlier childbirth is for black mothers, but I KNOW that being in their mother’s womb is much more risky for black babies, given the hugely disproportionate number of abortions of black babies.
I have not heard how the Democrats are working to correct this disproportionate event, and enhance the survival of black babies.
Skilled trade?
Home making is actually looked down on even on FR. You are a parasite leaching off the poor down trodden male that you conned into marrying you.
You laze around all day eating bonbons and watching daytime tv.
The Star Ledger is NJ’s premier Leftist rag.
The obvious remedy for this inequity is to sterilize black females at birth. Then, they will not die in childbirth.
Childbirth is a risky endeavor.. hell it was the leading cause of death of women of childbearing age up until I believe sometime in the 19th or 20th centuries.
The discrepancy in death rates during child birth is not invented.
I don’t know the research, but there is clear evidence of income affecting outcomes. I would like to see the statistics for the races across all incomes, apples to apples. If you are poor, you are less likely to get adequate care before and after birth, this is true of all races.
Given African American women are about 13% of the female population, and whites are about 57% of the female population. Almost 24% of Black women live in poverty, and around 6% of white women live in poverty. Based on poverty statistics alone, when you evenly weight the cohorts, if poverty is a cause you would expect around a 4 to 1 difference between whites and black women... assuming of course birth rates are the same among all income groups, which we know is not true, but to keep the numbers simple, we’ll run with it for now.
Still looking but most recent numbers I have found show black women are 2.4 times more likely to die from childbirth than white women, but this number isn’t broken down by income, this is overall.
The other thing to keep in mind here, and is that asa whole you are talking about a cause of death that equated to around 750 deaths total, across all races, in 2019 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality-2021/maternal-mortality-2021.htm)
Until I can find an income distribution chart comparing mortality rates per 100,000 births across races.. (and I assume it exists, just haven’t seen it) its hard to really even see how bad this disparity truly is.
If this is just a statistical aberration because poor whites and poor blacks die from child birth at similar rates, but because as a percentage more black women are poor than white women it skews the results when comparing the overall numbers.
I am not saying there are numbers showing this, I just haven’t personally seen them. I suspect highly, that income is the single biggest factor in this, not racism within the health care community affecting care.
I’ll also be honest, given this is something has causes so few deaths overall in the US every year, its shows you just how privileged we are to live in the times we do. We have the resources to spend on looking at a something that kills 750 people a year, in a nation of 330,000,000 people.
Complications for blacks only sounds like a fish story.
Sounds like they can’t even get off their idle duffs to prepare meals; that became clear when some cities started offering free BREAKFAST programs in the ‘hoods. WE already buy their food, and now provide TWO meals per day during the school year? In NYC, they continued the “free lunch” program through the summer but had to open it up to everyone; this nonsense is just lining contractors’ pockets with taxpayer money.
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