US maternal death rate rose sharply in 2021, CDC data shows, and experts worry the problem is getting worse | CNN
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As women continue to die due to pregnancy or childbirth each year in the United States, new federal data shows that the nation's maternal death rate rose significantly yet again in 2021, with the rates among Black women more than twice as high as those of White women.

This was posted on /r/news and everybody thinks this is about the anti-abortion laws. If you read the article, it's actually because of covid (this is not me saying anti-abortion laws won't have an effect, that's just not what this current issue is about).

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      That's just the cost of freedom and democracy

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      Right-wing U.S. states have higher maternal mortality than left-wing Indian states. Kerala's better than Texas, Georgia, and a few others, last I checked.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Are you Malu?

        Kerala is based as fuck but they're still extremely poor. It makes you wonder what could happen if the entire country, or even continent somehow unified and went red.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          2 years ago

          No - my only personal connection to that sentence is that I have friends who have given birth in Georgia. (Everyone survived,) I think I first came across the comparison in an Arundhati Roy essay, and verified it later during a conversation with one of those recent Georgia mothers.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's actually really good for China, considering that China has more people living in rural areas than the US has people.

      Really bad for the US though...