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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Dying to Have Children
According to a CNN report, deaths from pregnancy and childbirth have doubled in the United States in the past 20 years. This development received a harsh response from the human rights group, Amnesty International, which called the findings “scandalous and disgraceful”. As if this information isn’t bad enough, it gets worse. It also points out that most deaths and complications in pregnancy and childbirth happen among minorities and women in poverty. Hold on to your seat because I’m not done. Yes, my readers there’s more to this and it get even more abominable. White women have a mortality rate of 9.5 per 100,000 pregnancies, while Black women have a death rate of 32.7 per 100,000 pregnancies.Black women make up 12% of the population and yet we account for 50% of maternal deaths in the United States. Why are we not screaming from this mountain tops about this? Where is the uproar from our community about these shameful, damaging statistics about our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our aunts – ourselves? The lack of proper and timely medical care duty to insufficient or no health coverage was the overwhelming factor in higher rates of maternal deaths in the Black community.
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These statistics are absolutely appalling. Thank you for posting this, I will pass it on.
I don't think you can blame health coverage. If black women were more informed about and actually practiced eating right in the first place, their bodies would be in better shape and condition for pregnancy, labor and delivery. Also, most routine medical interventions of labor and delivery make it a riskier practice to birth in a hospital.
Those are some crazy statistics! We have had two babies now without any problems.