The U.S. should be home to the best medical treatment in the world, yet we’ve become the most dangerous developed country for women giving birth. Moms are dying – about 700 every year – because they’re not getting proper maternal health care.
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And half of these deaths and injuries could be prevented. It would only take simple changes in the care provided by doctors and hospitals, but they aren’t doing it.https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/31/high-maternal-death-rate-shames-america-developed-nations-editorials-debates/866752002/ …
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While this crisis affects all women, black mothers are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white mothers. This is unconscionable. There’s no place for discrimination anywhere, including in health care.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html …
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If ours is a country that truly values women, we need to prove it. We need to ensure access to the quality health care mothers deserve. We need reproductive justice for women of color. We need to do
#MoreForMOMS. That’s why I’m announcing a solution tomorrow. Stay tuned.Show this thread
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This is not the truth. Not. Even. Close.https://healthresearchfunding.org/18-noteworthy-botched-abortion-statistics/ …
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