Giving birth in America continues to get deadlier

FOR most of human history, pregnancy has come with a significant risk of death. Up until the early 1930s in America, nearly one woman died ...

For some Black women, the fear of death shadows the joy of birth

In the United States, the deadliest place to give birth among high ... giving birth, by and large, continued to do so many months after.

Pregnancy and childbirth deaths are largely preventable, CDC says

For every five mothers dying in the United States from pregnancy and childbirth, three could have been saved if they had received better ...

FACT SHEET: Vice President Kamala Harris Announces Call to ...

Black women are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as white women, and Native American women are more ...

California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth

Put simply, women who give birth in the US have a greater risk of ... America's peers have continued to make pregnancy safer. Terlizzi ...

Why are black women at such high risk of dying from pregnancy ...

It's partly why the overall rate of pregnancy-related deaths has climbed over the past two decades, making the maternal mortality rate in the ...

Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality

African Americans have the highest infant mortality rate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. Pregnancy-related complications are ...

New study challenges scale of maternal health crisis in the US - CNN

Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year ...

No, the Maternal Mortality Rate Is Not Rising - Governing Magazine

That is to say, assuming CDC is faithfully assigning at least one pregnancy-related condition as a cause for each pregnancy-related death, then ...

America Has The Highest Maternal Mortality Rate | Blurred Bylines

Compared with other Western countries with well-funded healthcare systems such as Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Germany, the ...

Fact Check: “Abortion is 14 Times Safer than Childbirth”

These better-quality studies demonstrate far more deaths in the year following abortion than childbirth, providing strong evidence that abortion ...

Trends in Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity During ...

In 2019, there were 3 747 540 births in the United States, with an estimated birth rate of 11.4 per 1000 population. According to US Pregnancy ...

Maternal mortality is hard to measure — and that may get worse

With more than 32 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, the risk of dying during pregnancy or in the year after childbirth is on average 10 ...

What is the maternal mortality for women 40 and over in the US?

In 2021, on average, 32.8 women died of pregnancy-related causes for every 100,000 live births, according to newly released data from the ...

Imagine a World - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

American women are more than three times more likely to die from childbirth than women in almost every other wealthy country. But, as I noted earlier, the ...

Giving birth in the US is becoming a deadlier affair - Yahoo

Giving birth in the US (where, in 2020, 21 women died of pregnancy-related causes per every 100,000 live births) is nearly twice as deadly as it ...

Maternal Deaths Spiked In 2021—Particularly Among Black Women ...

Maternal Deaths Spiked In 2021—Particularly Among Black Women—As U.S. Maintains Deadly Reputation For Pregnancy And Childbirth · Topline · Key ...

Experts try to reverse the rise in Black maternal mortality - PBS

For too many American women, giving birth can be deadly. The United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed ...

She hoped to shine a light on maternal mortality among Native ...

A population at risk. The number of pregnancy-related deaths across America is at a crisis level. The U.S. ranks the worst out of all developed ...

Maternal mortality rate surged by 40% in the US. Here's what we know.

A new federal analysis shows pregnant women are dying at even higher rates across the U.S. Here's why. RELATED: Deadly deliveries: Women ...