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Kemi Badenoch addresses pre-eclampsia experts - black mothers x5 likely to die **title edited by MNHQ**

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OhHolyJesus · 14/11/2020 10:28

Full release here

www.gov.uk/government/news/minister-for-equalities-speaks-to-pre-eclampsia-experts-at-global-event

"But evidence shows that black British mothers are five times more likely to die in pregnancy or six weeks after childbirth, than white women. Women of mixed ethnicity have three times the risk, and Asian women almost twice the risk. Ethnic minority women are also at an increased risk of having a pre-term birth, stillbirth, neonatal death or a baby born with low birth weight."

I'm a bit of a fan of Kemi's since her speech on critical race theory in the HoP and this just makes me love her more. I don't care that she's a Tory, she knows what a woman is and is doing something.

CarolineMumsnet · 14/11/2020 11:53

Just to let you know that we've made that edit to the title for you now, OhHolyJesus Flowers

RowanMumsnet · 16/11/2020 10:08

@ErrolTheDragon

Good for her for raising the issue, and seeking to do something about it. And I wonder if this could be an issue *@MNHQ* could do something with, in campaigning terms, too?

Sounds like it should be on their list. I'm not sure @MNHQ alerts anyone, I'll report this post and ask. Smile

Hello

Thanks for raising this with us. We've been supporting the efforts of the group 5X on this issue (we try not to re-invent the wheel when it comes to new campaigns and in this case 5X were already getting lots of coverage for their campaigning). You can see a Guest Post about this issue and some links to actions to take here.

We've also run a big survey recently collecting women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth care (among other things) since COVID struck and we're aiming to break the results down by ethnicity, so keep your eyes peeled for that data which we should be announcing in the next couple of weeks. Contacting Kemi Badenoch about this whole area is definitely on our to-do list.

If you have specific ideas for things you think we should do, do shout.

Thanks

MNHQ

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