Ken ArmstrongBlack women are more than 2X as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. In South Carolina, Kansas and Tennessee, they are around 3X as likely. "If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed because it’s like, ‘What are you complaining about now?’”
by Duaa Eldeib, for @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/stillbirths-pregnancy-mothers-parents-racial-disparities
by Duaa Eldeib, for @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/stillbirths-pregnancy-mothers-parents-racial-disparities
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”