Kira Johnson bled to death after a routine C-section, 12 hours after giving birth to her son.
The family of a Black woman who bled to death from a routine C-section, after giving birth to a baby boy at Cedars-Sinai, is claiming in a lawsuit that racism played a part in what happened.
"Because of the things we have learned through this incredibly painful process, there's no doubt in my mind that my wife would be here today and be here Sunday celebrating Mother's Day with her boys if she was a Caucasian woman," Johnson said. According to the complaint,"The surgery was done recklessly. The time, start to finish, was a mere 17 minutes."
The widower went on to say that his wife's story is one of many backing up the statistics that Black women are four to six times more likely to die from childbirth in California than white women. His attorneys released what they said was damning employee testimony on the hospital's practices.
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