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Felicity Capon

The racial disparities in British maternity deaths

Black women are nearly four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women

Racial disparities in maternal death rates in Britain have been condemned as as “nothing short of a scandal”, after an MPs’ report warned that black women are nearly four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women.

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