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Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies: http://ow.ly/1iMfH (via @Joyce_Johnson)

15 March 2010 0 comments Article Midwifery

Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies

By Jennifer Block

Friday, Mar. 12, 2010

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Amnesty International may be best known to American audiences for
bringing to light horror stories abroad such as the disappearance of
political activists in Argentina or the abysmal conditions inside South
African prisons under apartheid. But in a new report on pregnancy and
childbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal-health care crisis
in this country as part of a systemic violation of women’s rights.

The report, titled “Deadly Delivery,” notes that the likelihood of a
woman’s dying in childbirth in the U.S. is ?ve times as great as in Greece,
four times as great as in Germany and three times as great as in Spain.
Every day in the U.S., more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes,
with the maternal mortality ratio doubling from 6.6 deaths per 100,000
births in 1987 to 13.3 deaths per 100,000 births in 2006. (And as shocking
as these figures are, Amnesty notes that the actual number of maternal
deaths in the U.S. may be a lot higher, since there are no federal
requirements to report these outcomes and since data collection at the state
and local levels needs to be improved.) “In the U.S., we spend more than any
country on health care, yet American women are at greater risk of dying from
pregnancy-related causes than in 40 other countries,” says Nan Strauss, the
report’s co-author, who spent two years investigating the issue of maternal
mortality worldwide. “We thought that was scandalous.” 

Full article at: http://ow.ly/1iMfH

Amnesty International report at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/007/2010/en

 

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