‘A critical emergency’: America’s Black maternal mortality crisis

Renewed bid to pass stalled legislation as racial disparities in maternal health outcomes have persisted - and even worsened

America is facing an intensified push to pass stalled federal legislation to address the US's alarming maternal mortality rates and glaring racial disparities which have led to especially soaring death rates among Black women giving birth.

Maternal mortality rates in the US far outpace rates in other industrialized nations, with rates more than double those of countries such as France, Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany. Moms in the US are dying at the highest rates in the developed world.