I do just want to note that the stillborn and infant mortality and infant health issues are incredibly important, but so is what is happening to our moms and the fact that mothers continue to die at three to four times--Black mothers continue to die at the rate of three to four times than the White moms in our country in terms of maternal mortality.
Underwood highlights the disparity in maternal mortality rates between Black and White mothers.
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