To be clear, this is the problem they’re trying to solve:

Black people made up half of all births in D.C. but accounted for 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths between 2014 to 2018, according to the city’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee. During the same period, white people constituted 30 percent of births but did not experience a single maternal death. When it comes to infant mortality in the District, there are similar disparities.