For those trying to assert some sort of bizarre abortion-based theory for skewing the statistics: the study is specifically only about the mortality rate of Black babies delivered in a medical facility.
It does not study the mortality rate of babies whose mothers had Black obstetricians during their pregnancies.
The researchers did not attempt to identify a cause for this disparity in this study, and noted only that this disparity does not appear to exist for other doctor-patient racial pairings where the mother was not Black.
The point of this study was simply to identify that a disparity exists, so that follow-up research can identify why and hopefully address the disparity in outcomes.
It does not study the mortality rate of babies whose mothers had Black obstetricians during their pregnancies.
The researchers did not attempt to identify a cause for this disparity in this study, and noted only that this disparity does not appear to exist for other doctor-patient racial pairings where the mother was not Black.
The point of this study was simply to identify that a disparity exists, so that follow-up research can identify why and hopefully address the disparity in outcomes.