Yeah, I didn't see this one coming, but this sad statistic shows the US is not even close to any other industrialized country when it comes to maternal mortality :
https://qz.com/1108193/whats-killing-americas-new-mothers/
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With an estimated 26.4 deaths for every 100,000 live births in 2015, America has the highest maternal mortality rate of all industrialized countries—by several times over. In Canada, the rate is 7.3; in Western Europe, the average is 7.2, with many countries including Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Austria showing rates around 4. More women die of childbirth-related causes in the US than they do in Iran (20.8), Lebanon (15.3), Turkey (15.8), Puerto Rico (15.1), China (17.7), and many more.
https://qz.com/1108193/whats-killing-americas-new-mothers/
America didn’t always fare so poorly in maternal health. Like most other developing countries, in the decades following the end of World War II, maternal mortality rates dropped across the US—until the late 1980s, when the trend began to reverse.
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