During a House Oversight Committee hearing entitled «Birthing While Black: Examining America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis,» Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) speaks the United States’ high maternal mortality rate, and the racial disparities within that rate, and advocates a solution, especially for Black women, for deaths which 60% of the time are preventable.

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Carolyn Maloney Says Systemic Racism Causing US’s & Black Women’s High Maternal Mortality Rate