'After Tori Bowie, an elite athlete, died in May, the reality of the health risk to Black women posed by childbirth was once again in the spotlight. The maternal mortality rate for Black women in America is, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2.6 times that for white women.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/opinion/reduce-maternal-mortality-strategies.html