The data tell a different story. Abortion lies, not abortion bans, have caused harm to women, and the maternal mortality rate is actually decreasing. Data published this month by the National ...

Second, and possibly most urgent, there’s still work to be done to confront the persistent tragedy of maternal mortality in the ... in 2023 alone—the highest rate among high-income countries.

setting a goal that the maternal mortality rate be reduced to 8.7 per 100,000 by 2025. By any methods of estimation, we are not even close to this rate, and racial inequities persist. Most ...

In 2023, there was a drop in the maternal mortality rate for all but Black women, according to a Feb. 5 CDC report. The report collected maternal mortality rates for 2023 based on data from the ...

In 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, nearly 3.5 times the rate ...

She already felt trepidation about being pregnant due to the alarming maternal death rate ... Mortality Family Response Team, providing a full year of support via grief counseling, diapers ...

Grave warnings of a crisis in maternal deaths are being slightly eroded by articles suggesting that advocates overreached and that the “crisis” was primarily a ...

North Carolina’s maternal mortality rate saw a 100% increase from 2019 to 2021 during the peak of the pandemic, data shows. AsiaVision Getty Images In a country that has one of the worst ...

The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations; According to M.O.M.S. and the CDC, “817 women died of maternal causes in the United States in 2022.” On Aug. 25., ...

They purportedly collected data from publicly available CDC reports and found that Texas experienced a much larger increase in its maternal-mortality rate than did other states. The findings were ...

Even excluding deaths related to COVID-19, the numbers were worse than usual, reversing two years of progress in driving the maternal mortality rate downward. The Texas Maternal Mortality and ...

North Korea's maternal mortality rate was estimated at 67 per 100,000 live births in 2023, a number dramatically lower than in 2000 but nearly 17 times higher than South Korea's figure ...