The bad Doctor claims he’s baffled by the discrepancy, but from the Vanity Fair article:
" Then there’s the phrase “for whatever reason.” In fact, there is one very big reason in particular— perhaps you can take a guess? “It’s no mystery why maternal mortality rates are so high among Black women,” Michelle Williams, the dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health said in response. “They are high because of the devastating impacts of structural racism and individual bias.” As Politico notes, Black mothers are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white mothers in the U.S., which has the worst mortality rate among developed nations and where “17 mothers die for every 100,000 pregnancies in the country.” In Louisiana, Black mothers are four times as likely to die than white mothers."
This, in a nation that has higher overall maternal mortality rates than just about any advanced western nation.
If you correct our population for gender, age, and pregnancy the incidence of maternal mortality in our country is very low, and within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.
When you tell the people they can’t, people show up to say we will.
What I took from the reporting is that it took a lot of effort from voting rights groups, and some corporations-Delta, to scale back some of the proposed measures. It helped that the news organizations kept on top of what was happening in the legislature.
I look how the GA SoS is trying to say that in person voting is why up because of the new controls over VBM in early voting. It’s lost on Raffensperger and Kemp is that the reason in person early voting is way up is because voters don’t trust that their votes will counted.