In a House hearing for the Committee on Education and Workforce titled “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Health and Human Services,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to acknowledge the well-established, shameful statistic that Black women in the United States are at least three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts—even as Rep. Summer Lee called out that it was Black Maternal Health Week and asked, point-blank, “Do you have an idea of how we could solve the Black maternal mortality crisis if we can’t say Black?”
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