So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. 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. But according to GOP senator Bill Cassidy, the rate at which women die during pregnancy or shortly after is not as bad as it seems-if you subtract the deaths of Black women, which apparently don’t count. And in Louisiana, which has a similar trigger law that will go into effect upon Roe being reversed, maternal mortality rates are among the worst in the nation. Wade is overturned, has the highest rate of child poverty in the country and recently rejected a bid to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. Mississippi, for example, where abortion will immediately become illegal if Roe v. As conservatives across the country wage war on reproductive rights, demanding by law that women be forced to carry any pregnancy to term, regardless of the circumstances, they frequently (slash always) like to forget that they do absolutely nothing to support these people during said pregnancies or after.
