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Eugene

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Sat Aug 20, 2016, 07:58 AM Aug 2016

Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds

Source: The Guardian

Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds

As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period

Molly Redden
Saturday 20 August 2016 12.00 BST

The rate of Texas women who died from complications related to their pregnancy doubled from 2010 to 2014, a new study has found, for an estimated maternal mortality rate that is unmatched in any other state and the rest of the developed world.

The finding comes from a report, appearing in the September issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, that the maternal mortality rate in the United States increased between 2000 and 2014, even while the rest of the world succeeded in reducing its rate. Excluding California, where maternal mortality declined, and Texas, where it surged, the estimated number of maternal deaths per 100,000 births rose to 23.8 in 2014 from 18.8 in 2000 – or about 27%.

But the report singled out Texas for special concern, saying the doubling of mortality rates in a two-year period was hard to explain “in the absence of war, natural disaster, or severe economic upheaval”.

From 2000 to the end of 2010, Texas’s estimated maternal mortality rate hovered between 17.7 and 18.6 per 100,000 births. But after 2010, that rate had leaped to 33 deaths per 100,000, and in 2014 it was 35.8. Between 2010-2014, more than 600 women died for reasons related to their pregnancies.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding
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Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2016 OP
obvious outcome of present day conservatism, driving america into 3rd world status beachbum bob Aug 2016 #1
But...but... skepticscott Aug 2016 #2
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beachbum bob

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1. obvious outcome of present day conservatism, driving america into 3rd world status
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 09:32 AM
Aug 2016

and creating a social/economic system comparable......gotta say we deserve this as too many democrats sit home on their asses....and then complain about what has happened..

we have only ourselves to blame

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