The number of women who die during or shortly after childbirth is higher in the U.S. than in any other developed nation, particularly among women of color.
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births — roughly 2.9 times the rate among non-Hispanic White women. Tiemeier said the high disparity can be attributed to the overall health of women, poverty, poor care after delivery and discrimination, among other factors.
"We know that abortion occurs and people of poverty and minorities much more often," Tiemeier said."We know that they have difficulties to access abortion outside the state, so we think it will impact their physical and mental health. How many deaths? Nobody knows. It is very hard." "They have not accepted the Affordable Care Act offer to expand health care to women in the first year, and I would actually say it should go further than that in the first year after delivery," he said.
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