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Joel Brennan: “If you're a black mother, you know, giving birth, you're…”

Featuring: Joel Brennan, Democratic | Candidate, Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 09:03

That sounds outrageous. You have. This is what access looks like in the state of Wisconsin. If you're a black mother, you know, giving birth, you're three times more likely to die in childbirth than, you know, than a white woman. Like, that's not good enough for us in Wisconsin. So we better be doing things in health care that are going to be responsive. (09:03–09:12)

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Asserts that black mothers in Wisconsin are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.

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