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    Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis - Villarosa_Remediated
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    1. clrosie 08 Nov 2026
      700 to 900 maternal deaths occur in the United States. In addition, the C.D.C. reports more than 50,000 potentially preventable near-deaths, like Landrum's, per year — a number that rose nearly 200 percent from 1993 to 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as their white counterparts, according to the C.D.C. — a disproportionate rate that is higher than that of Mexico, where nearly half the population lives in poverty — and as with infants, the high numbers for black women drive the national numbers

      This number is extremely staggering we are the same species yet we have birthing morality differences in race and sex that only shows a manipulated or multiple manipulated variables. It has been caused due to availability of education, food, and support which has been marginalized to those that the system wants it to benefit,the white man. “The feminist focus on gender and identification of male domination as the source of reproductive repression often overlooks the importance of racism in shaping our understanding of reproductive liberty and the degree of ‘choice’ that women really have.” page 11. WC:100

    2. clrosie 08 Nov 2026
      Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — 11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with 4.9 per 1,000 white babies, according to the most recent government data — a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when most black women were considered chattel. In one year, that racial gap adds up to more than 4,000 lost black babies. Education and income offer little protection. In fact, a black woman with an advanced degree is more likely to lose her baby than a white woman with less than an eighth-grade education

      “The conception of Black women as unfit for motherhood was reinforced by their working lives.” Page 19. This quote explains how the system is built to not acknowledge how racial disparity especially for black mothers is an extremely pressing matter and has been for hundreds of years. This includes limited or no access to healthcare as well as systemic history backing the fact that most medical birth procedures came from experimenting on enslaved young women and children.

    3. clrosie 08 Nov 2026
      That year, the reported black infant-mortality rate was 340 per 1,000; the white rate was 217 per 1,000. This black-white divide in infant mortality has been a source of both concern and debate for over a century

      The black baby mortality rate compared to the white baby mortality rate has shown to been drastic since at least the 1850's. This is due to social inequalities and violation of human rights throughout American history in which those who are not white don't get to enjoy the same freedoms of those who are. As well as the disproportionate focus on medical health towards women especially in past history. " “The social order established by powerful white men was founded on two inseparable ingredients: the dehumanization of Africans on the basis of race, and the control of women’s sexuality and reproduction.” page 27.

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