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Worsening US Maternal Death Rates

JAMA Clinical Reviews

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The Worst Outcomes in the Industrialized World

We've hyper focused on babies in this country. So we are not the worst in industrialised world just because black and indigenous women are dying. When you have a system that values people fundamentally differently, if you think about the fact that we only count maternal deaths up to six weeks. And then lastly, I'll just say, pebri-bri-ri. The reason we say their names is because when you just say things like 700, 900, 1200, we don't acknowledge the humanity, the actual person.

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