Important Note: Many assume that racial disparities in birth outcomes are due to socioeconomic factors resulting in a lack of resources or access to care. While that may be true in some pregnancies, research shows that even after controlling for factors such as income, education, access to prenatal care, hypertension, and maternal/fetal age, race is still a major factor. Evidence has also shown that Black infants are less likely to die when cared for by Black doctors.

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Taken together, these findings imply that - whether through implicit bias in medical practitioners, institutionalized racism in the healthcare system, physical weathering effects on the health of mothers whose lives are affected daily by structural racism society, or some combination of the above - racism has a direct impact on pregnancy outcomes for Black mothers. It can reasonably be inferred that this includes stillbirth.