Black women Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

Black women are three times as likely to die giving birth or shortly after birth as white women. Black women in the United States…

— Annie Lowrey

Ethnic minority women generally have poorer outcomes from their pregnancy compared to white women.

— Konnie Huq

“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or…

— Jessica Valenti

Every day Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day Black women die because the system denies…

— Cori Bush

“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are…

— Robin Lim

There are Black women who die while trying to give life to newborns because Black people are always overlooked, under-cared-for, underprivileged. It's been what…

— August Alsina

When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but…

— Warren Farrell

If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman to have…

— Alveda King

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

— Robin Lim

“Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson