By Miriam Stoppard Women from Black ethnic backgrounds are four times more likely to die during pregnancy or in the six weeks after giving birth, compared to white women. This was the finding of an Oxford University report earlier this year that has become the gold standard for identifying improvements needed in maternity services. There’s an almost two-fold difference in death rate among women from Asian backgrounds compared to white women. How have we let this happen? The Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care report showed that 12% of the women who died during or up to a year after pregnancy…