Our Health Care System Fails Black Mothers and Babies

And systemic and structural racism is to blame

Here are the facts: Black infants have 2.3 times the infant mortality rate as white infants and Black women who receive prenatal care — the quality of care notwithstanding — are more likely to lose their babies than white women.

Writer Allison Gaines examines this disparity and failure of the health care system that in 2020 makes giving birth a riskier experience for Black women. And, according to Gaines (and facts/statistics), systemic…