North Carolina’s Health Department Falls for DEI Quackery

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services won’t let tragedy go to waste. A newly released report implicates “discrimination” in 70 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in the state and recommends a suite of leftist policies to remedy this alleged epidemic of hatred. Yet a quick diagnosis — free from political bias — reveals that the report and its conclusions are ideology masquerading as science.

The state’s “Maternal Mortality Review Report,” published in February, identifies 76 “pregnancy-related” deaths in North Carolina in 2018 and 2019. A pregnancy-related death is defined as a “death during pregnancy or within one year of the end of the pregnancy from a pregnancy complication, a chain of events initiated by pregnancy or the aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy.”

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Ian Kingsbury

Ian Kingsbury is the director of research at Do No Harm, a health-care-advocacy organization.

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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services won’t let tragedy go to waste. A newly released report implicates “discrimination” in 70 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in the state and recommends a suite of leftist policies to remedy this alleged epidemic of hatred. Yet a quick diagnosis — free from political bias — reveals that the report and its conclusions are ideology masquerading as science.

The state’s “Maternal Mortality Review Report,” published in February, identifies 76 “pregnancy-related” deaths in North Carolina in 2018 and 2019. A pregnancy-related death is defined as a “death during pregnancy or within one year of the end of the pregnancy from a pregnancy complication, a chain of events initiated by pregnancy or the aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy.”