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Maternal deaths in childbirth rise in the U.S.
Maternal deaths related to childbirth in the United States are nearly at the highest rate in a quarter century, and a woman giving birth in America is now more likely to die than a woman giving birth in China, according to a new study.
The United States is one of just eight countries to see a rise in maternal mortality over the past decade, said researchers for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in a study published in The Lancet, a weekly medical journal. The others are Afghanistan, Greece, and several countries in Africa and Central America.
The researchers estimated that 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in the U.S. in 2013, a total of almost 800 deaths. That is more than double the maternal mortality rate in Saudi Arabia and Canada, and more than triple the rate in the United Kingdom.
The study was the latest to underscore a steep rise in pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. since at least 1987, when the mortality rate was 7.2 per 100,000 births. The U.S. experienced a sharp spike in 2009 that the Centers for Disease Control attributed to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The rate has dipped slightly since then, said Nicholas Kassebaum, the lead physician in the University of Washington study, but it remains stubbornly high.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maternal-deaths-in-childbirth-rise-in-the-us/2014/05/02/abf7df96-d229-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html
6 Reasons Americans Should Stop Obsessing Over the Threat of Terrorist Attacks
Here are the other things that proved more fatal to Americans than terrorism last year:
1. Child Flu Deaths: During the 2012-2013 flu season, the CDC logged 149 pediatric deaths from the ailment.
2. Deaths During Childbirth: Researchers writing in the medical journal Lancet estimated that nearly 800 mothers died during childbirth last year, making our maternal mortality rate three times as high as the United Kingdom's.
3. Workplace Deaths: According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, 4,405 workers were killed on the job in 2013...(3.2 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers)on average, 85 a week or more than 12 deaths every day.
4. Ordinary Gun Violence: In 2013, more people died every day from ordinary gun violence than from terrorismwith about 30 people being shot and killed each day, according to Slate. The majority of gun deaths are suicides.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dog-bites-workplace-accidents-and-4-other-things-killed-more-americans-terrorism
The GOP is at full throttle to close "abortion clinics". These clinics supply the most basic care to women, from mammograms, family planning and birth control and so much more for a woman's wellness. Do not deny them that right. Do not give them health care at 77 cents on the dollar that a man gets.
Are you voting in 2014? I am and I am voting for the Democratic candidate all the way! I am.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)but I like the overall theme of the OP. K&R
calimary
(80,521 posts)What they stand for melts down into domestic terrorism and nothing else:
Guns everywhere. Out in the open shoved into my face and my field of vision.
Shoving iffy, ill-conceived "Stand Your Ground" legislation in every date legislature available that allows anyone to kill with no consequences and minimal justification.
Cutting funds that support needy families and children.
Allowing no more safe areas around women's health clinics.
Obstructing the President - we don't even have a Surgeon General in office, NOR ambassadors to many of the African nations. The Fucking GOP won't confirm them.
Fomenting an "every man for himself," "you're on your own" environment.
Protecting the polluters so the rest of us drown in poisoned water, eat mutated irradiated food, breath toxic air, and walk (and let our children run around and play) on contaminated ground.
Withholding and curtailing and restricting the right to vote.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)What you're describing is an end. The means is politics. The Republican vision for a great country may seem horrible to us, but I still don't consider it terrorism.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)pediatric flu deaths is the result of the greed of America's health care system. As long as uninsured women are going to forgo prenatal doctor visits and uninsured parents are not going to seek medical care for children with the flu, these deaths will happen. America needs single payer.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)some sort of socialized health care. Single payer would be great.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Excellent post!
Yes, I will be voting and voting DEMOCRATIC AGAIN!
And I support Planned Parenthood, NARAL and the Feminist Majority 100%.
Get out the vote. Lives depend on it!
sheshe2
(83,128 posts)Say no to the GOP!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)I will be saying NO to the GOP!
By the way, letting YOU be the first of my DU friends to know, my daughter told me tonight she is moving in with her boyfriend nest weekend. My old-fashioned Catholic, Republican relatives will not understand or approve, but I am so excited and happy for them! He is also a very committed progressive Democrat. A very happy day!
Get out the vote!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)that I was letting my daughter's boyfriend stay overnight most weekends (she'd recently had to move back in). These were two college educated, professional "kids," closer to thirty than twenty. He'd been downsized and was trying to start up his own business. My daughter was also involved with a struggling venture. They had married friends who had been together for fewer years, and were starting families; agreed to be a bit risky by both of them. Their breakup was due to his moving a bit to the "dark side" to make money. HEY, Ain't that America!..thanks Billy Joel.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Very cool that you've been there.
Boyfriend has spent the night here many weekends. Daughter is 24, college graduate and mature. She had to move back in for $ reasons also. I've had no problem at all with it. But some of my relatives - "Living in sin! The horror!"
No biggie to me. Their happiness is what matters.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)family on both sides, but blessed with immediate sane, both Catholic/ Protestant parents and in-laws as sensible influences. I'm stopping before I just get rambling nuts... like other sadly nasty Moms; " I'm sure she'll get knocked up and ruin my son's future"
Kath1
(4,309 posts)" I'm sure she'll get knocked up and ruin my son's future" Yes, I know that one.
I'm very proud of my daughter! And I am glad that I raised her to feel free to make her own decisions. She is the "liberated woman" I would have liked to be at her age.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Otherwise known as "going all the way." Trouble was, back in the day, some of those guys who were trying their best, had problems with it if they were successful. Not to mention many "make out" gymnastics would have been more honest if just straight out sex. Our daughters do have it way better.
Absolutely!
But you're right about the "make out" sessions and the guys' failure to perform in my younger days.
Our daughters do have it waaaaay better, at least in regard to sex. Too bad so many people would love to ruin it for them by resticting or eliminating access to birth control.
I love it that they have such freedom. Let's keep it that way!
And, of course, they are lucky to have moms who "get it."
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)actually did "give in" (the slut!). Even if inexperienced, most of those guys were pretty horny.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Experienced or not!
1dogleft
(164 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)calimary
(80,521 posts)And that they urge their friends to vote as well.
sheshe2
(83,128 posts)Oh to hell with the poopy heads that will not approve!
Happy day to you and yours~
Kath1
(4,309 posts)I think it is so cool that she has decided to move in with her BF!
And, yes, to hell with all those stuck in the past! Their era is over. I'm very proud that my daughter is living proof that we don't give a damn about their religious dogma!
Mainly, I'm just very happy for her and I hope the relationship works out.
riverbendviewgal
(4,244 posts)Billions going to the weapons and bomb makers.
Yet no money to give women maternity care. America is a third world nation.
In Canada we do take care of All our people, preventative and treatment health care. We know what is important.
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GUNS.
Veilex
(1,555 posts)Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #5)
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)So many stories of how being pregnant now subjects women to the criminal justice system; being nabbed and abused.
Told they should be raped to make them behave; should be executed if they exercise their right to choose; that rape is the right of any man, and they have no rights to say no to it, or anything else.
Plus that they should not be allowed to vote. If that's not terrorizing women, IDK what is.
sheshe2
(83,128 posts)Thank you. You are a beautiful woman. Sadly some will never see that in us.
Some are so blind that they do not see the truth in what you just posted.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Thank you!
ffr
(22,636 posts)ME TOO!
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Senator, and Cheri Bustos for my Congresscritter. In other words, I voted Democratic all the way.
Women need to stand united against the Talibornagains/Tea-liban.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)the GOP can stuff it when it comes to reproductive choice, its long been known that having a baby is more dangerous than an abortion ut the issue is CHOICE
oh and when it comes to death from terrorism I'll add another one on average you've got more chance of being killed by a lightening strike
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/fatalities.htm
sheshe2
(83,128 posts)Well said. We vote because it is our choice to choose.
As for Morgan Freeman in your sig line...swoon. I love that man!
Thank you~
Kath1
(4,309 posts)I can't believe how they complain about contraception and sex education when the lack of these lead to.....more abortion!
Roe v. Wade is law. Bottom line: Women should have totally unrestricted access to contraception and abortion services. No conditions, no delays, no hassle.
I still use Planned Parenthood for my healthcare and I took my daughter their for education/birth control pills when she was 16. They are great, IMO. I'm 57 and she's 24 and we both all the better for it!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)weak-kneed DEMs who are always satisfied meeting the GOP on the GOP's own terms ... every single time.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)enabling the Wall Street rich to rob us blind. It's working very well to the advantage of the rich who will always be able to pay for their health care, including abortions.
RKP5637
(67,008 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)A friend intervened on my behalf when I was pregnant, offering to get me a spot with her ob gyn doctor.
However, his first opening was in August. (My due date was mid-June)
Meanwhile there has been a concerted campaign agaisnt midwives. The theory being, I guess, is that it is better to die without anyone there than to have someone who is trained and has experience.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I believe I've posted as much as anyone on here about the republican attack on reproductive rights and in particular the insidious nature of TARP regulations and laws. It's heinous. It's not terrorism.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)Response to sheshe2 (Original post)
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BumRushDaShow
(126,616 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)When we consider the high mortality rate of mothers giving birth and the high infant mortality rates, we have to see our priorities are messed up. I don't recall but in the Democratic National Platform do we stress the need to bring these horrible death rates down? I know that we emphasize that we need the strongest military in the world.
Thanks for posting.
robthesocialist
(32 posts)For some reason terrorism gets all the publicity while Heart disease, Cancer, gun violence get the backburner. Not to mention the GOP wants to double down on gun ownership and keep healthcare (or lackthereof) the way it always has been...I don't get it
treestar
(82,383 posts)We pride ourselves on being number one, yet it is safer in friggin' China to give birth?