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# Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
- URL: https://werd.io/louisiana-senator-bill-cassidy-our-maternal-death-rates-are-only/
- Published: 2022-05-21T02:32:28.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-21T02:32:28.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“In an interview with Politico, the following words came out of Cassidy’s mouth: “About a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.””

\[[Link](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/bill-cassidy-maternal-mortality-rates)\]