Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 191
Blue Wave Update
“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.”
— Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), quoted by Politico, saying maternal death rates are only bad if you count Black women.
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