Doctors don’t listen to us when we complain about pain. Like research has shown they take our pain less seriously. And that is literally killing us. Also the legacy of trauma during childbirth during slavery also plays a role. Our ancestors were forcibly bred like animals by white people. That affects epigenetics that continue to affect us during childbirth and pregnancy to this day.

Personal anecdote, I had a nerve block and the local anesthesia didn’t work (common in heavy cannabis smokers btw) so I’m on the table literally screaming, drooling into my mask in pain feeling this man shove a needle into my spine and the whole time he’s just like “come on 420catloveredm” and I’m just like “my dude I am SUFFERING”. He could’ve stopped and given me more local anesthesia but apparently my suffering didn’t count.

You’re a good husband. I’m black with chronic health problems and at high risk for cancer. I told my very white boyfriend I will be using every bit of his white privilege at hospitals for the rest of my life.

If you literally clicked on the article you could read the study they’re referencing but we both know you’re not actually here to argue in good faith.

No it isn’t. It’s still higher even when controlling for other external factors.

Keep reading past where it’s convenient for you. I know it’s hard.

However, the increased risk of maternal death among racial and ethnic minority women appears to be, at least in part, independent of sociodemographic risk.34 Adjustment for sociodemographic and reproductive factors has not explained the racial gap in pregnancy-related mortality in most studies. For instance, in one study, adjustment for maternal age, income, hypertension, gestational age at delivery, and receipt of prenatal care only reduced odds ratios for pregnancy-related mortality from 3.07 (95% CI 2.0–4.54) to 2.65 (95% CI 1.73–4.07).19 Another study found the largest racial disparity among women with the lowest risk of pregnancy-related disease.3 Data suggest that a web of factors including higher prevalence of comorbidities and pregnancy complications, lower socioeconomic status, and less access to prenatal care, contribute to but do not fully explain the elevated rates of severe maternal morbidity and mortality among racial and ethnic minority women.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5915910/