Healthcare providers, advocates and politicians gathered in Raleigh Wednesday to push for state laws and grant programs they say would reduce pregnancy-related deaths among Black women.
In North Carolina, the Black maternal death rate was 61.4 for each 100,000 births from 2019-2023, according to America’s Health Rankings. The maternal mortality rate for white women was 22.3 per 100,000 births.
Nationally, Black women die from pregnancy-related complications and conditions at about three times the rate of white women…