Harris links DEI attacks to maternal health crisis in Michigan campaign stop

In Detroit, Kamala Harris drew a deliberate line between the dismantling of diversity programs and the deaths of mothers — arguing that policy is never truly neutral, and that what is framed as bureaucratic reform often lands as a withdrawal of protection from those already most vulnerable. Speaking alongside Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, she placed maternal mortality statistics — Black women dying at four times the rate of white women, one in twelve Americans living without obstetric access — inside a larger question that democracies have always struggled to answer: whose lives does a soci