 The article made it clear that if Black women were able to plan their pregnancies, then there would be a chance that the infant mortality rates would decrease.Schuyler observed, "If twenty-five percent of the brown children born die at birth or in infancy because of the unhealthful and poverty-stricken conditions of the mothers and twenty-five percent more die in youth or vegetate in jails and asylums, there is instead of a gain a distinct loss.