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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.” From the archives:

propublica.orgShe 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 B...

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V confirms this claim checks out. Multiple peer-reviewed studies and public health data (e.g., PubMed, PMC, JAMA) confirm that the stillbirth rate for Black women in the US is consistently over twice that… Real-time fact-checks on your feed: https://veratify.ai Errors or comments: info@veratify.ai

This is not news as it has been the reality for the Black community since the end of the Civil War at the very least. Shameful for a country to not want to care for all its children.