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).

  • 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.