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26. When is a ‘High-Risk’ Pregnancy a Good Thing?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Are High Risk Pregnancy Interventions Making Pregnant Women Worse Off?

The current c section rate in the us. Is about 32%. In other words, a third of all babies are delivered this way. But it wasn't always like that. We intervene in childbirth with major abdominal surgery 500 pe more than we did in the early 19 seventies. And an american today is 50 % more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother.

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