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.