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PolitiFact - Is the Black-white disparity in maternal mortality as big as Raphael Warnock said?
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Sen. Raphael Warnock, comparing Black and white women, said that “Black women are three to four times more likely to die (from childbirth) even when they have the insurance and the income.” Mostly True.

In the Oct. 14 debate in Savannah against Republican Herschel Walker, Warnock said that the U.S. leads"all the western nations" in maternal mortality, a statement that we found to be generally accurate in our immediateWarnock went on to say,"Black women are three to four times more likely to die even when they have the insurance and the income.

published in September 2021 found that"the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 3.55 times that for non-Hispanic White women," but this controlled for neither income nor insurance.,"Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.

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