An attorney who was involved in the Supreme Court’s recent landmark affirmative action case responded to a claim made by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent in which she stated that black newborn babies are more likely to die if they aren’t treated by a black physician.
In her dissent, Ms. Jackson sought to show that race-based admissions can be a matter of life-or-death for minority groups in the Supreme Court’s ruling on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, in which the majority ruled to end affirmative action in college admissions.
“For high-risk black newborns, having a black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live and not die,” Ms. Jackson wrote as an example….