Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon, D-Atlanta, said Thursday that the newly appointed legislative committee to examine the state’s alarmingly high rate of maternal mortality failed to include enough representation from the group most affected: African American women.

“Black women die at three times the rate of Caucasian or any other woman in Georgia,” Cannon told the Daily Report. “We have over 30 African American female lawmakers in the house and a handful in the Senate. We are equipped to study this.”

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