What states aren’t doing to save new mothers’ lives
- Headlines & Highlights
- September 21, 2018
“Death rates among pregnant women and new mothers have gotten worse, even as wealthy countries elsewhere improved. Today, the U.S. is the most dangerous place in the developed world to deliver a baby.”
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Maternal mortality: An American crisis
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 7, 2018
“If you have a C-section in 2018, you have a 90 percent chance of having a C-section the second time. But the second time it’s a more complicated surgery. And the third time, it can be like operating on a melted box of crayons. And in those cases, women can bleed to death.”
READ MOREHospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.
- Home & Family
- July 30, 2018
“What we know about those deaths is that most of them were absolutely preventable. They were from causes that we could have done something about. We could have prevented it if we had recognized the emergency early on.”
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