DEAR WES STREETING, HEALTH MINISTER: WHY DO THESE WOMEN HAVE TO DIE?

We’re told Black women in the UK are 3.7 times more likely to die during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth than White women.

Let’s not beat about the bush, Wes.

We’re told Black women in the UK are 3.7 times more likely to die during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth than White women.

No quibble. No dodging that. Just a cold, statistical truth.

And we’re told — by your own government — that this won’t even out until 2035

That’s ten more years of grotesque inequality.
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