#BumpDay: rising maternal mortality rates

Women today are 50 percent more likely to die during childbirth than their mothers. Not in some far-off, third world country. Here, in the United States of America.

Though maternal mortality rates have steadily dropped in other developed nations, it has been on the rise in the U.S. Since my mother had her babies, three decades ago, the number of American women dying from pregnancy-related complications has more than doubled. During the same time period, maternal mortality rates around the world dropped by more than 40 percent.

Why are mothers in America dying during childbirth?

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