“I don’t think we’ve seen a complex love story like this between two Black women for an extended period of time,” Waithe said. An earlier study at the University of Michigan revealed that Black women are almost twice as likely to experience infertility than white women, and half as likely to receive medical help for it. According to a study published in Lancet in April, miscarriage rates are 43 percent higher for Black women than for white women. As the series shifted its point-of-view, it also took a deep dive into issues like miscarriages and infertility, which Black women disproportionately experience.
