U.S. maternal mortality rate is twice that of Canada: U.N

[Warren Stupidity]

Women are twice as likely to die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth in the United States than in Canada, a new global survey of maternal mortality published by the United Nations and the World Bank showed on Thursday.

The United States was also one of only 13 countries to have worse rates of maternal mortality in 2015 than in 1990 - a group that also includes North Korea, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

The survey, led by the World Health Organization, aims to track progress against the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. It estimated there would be 303,000 maternal deaths globally this year, down from 532,000 in 1990.

The U.N. target is to get the global average number of maternal deaths below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, with no country averaging worse than 140.

The United States and other developed countries are already far ahead of the target, but the U.S. average has slipped from 12 deaths to 14 per 100,000 live births over the past 25 years, while Canada's is where it was in 1990, at seven.

Over the same period Belarus has cut its maternal death rate from 33 to four, making it one of the safest places to have a baby, just behind the world leaders - Iceland, Finland, Poland and Greece - where only three mothers die for every 100,000 births.

Read more at Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/12/us-health-pregnancy-idUSKCN0T10LO20151112#ULDBGhOT4p6pXm01.99

This is why we can't have medicare for everyone.

[hobbit709]

1. Thank you Republicans and would-be theocrats.

[KingCharlemagne]

2. USA! USA! USA! /sarcasm/ - nt

[woodsprite]

3. And the repubs dream about it being higher.

After all, women are disposable -- we're just incubators for cannon fodder and outlets for their insurance-covered Viagra stiffies.

[Hortensis]

5. Yes, but it's mostly a function of bigotry against low-income people,

who most STRONG conservatives choose to see as members of less-worthy minorities, lazy people who refuse to work, and unwed mothers whose deaths provide proper cautionary tales for good girls.

Bigotry kills a lot more ways, and a lot more, than just with guns. Many of our newborn babies are murdered by bigotry too.

[Scuba]

4. Well sure, but the only metric that matters is insurance company profits.

What's a few dead mothers and babies when there's money at stake?

[Hortensis]

6. Oh, so strongly disagree. The problem's far larger,

as I mentioned above. It's really genocide in effect by a dominant group against others they don't like. I say "in effect" because some really do imagine withdrawing support will force society's misbehavers to take better care of themselves, not actually kill them. Others, of course, do have no problem with dead brown babies, and dead poor white ones too, whether they admit it to themselves or not.