In a release by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, police arrested 28-year-old ​​Brianna Marie Grier on July 15th. Her mother called the police due to Grier having a schizophrenic episode. She had been previously diagnosed as such and was prone to have these types of episodes. Police arrived at the home between midnight and 1 a.m. local time, placed Grier in cuffs, and put her into the back of a police cruiser.
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The following day, the family was contacted by a county sheriff who told them that Grier had “kicked the door out and jumped out the car.” Mind you, most police cars have doors that are reinforced by either bulletproofing or some other method, and patrol cars have automatic locks for those rear doors to prevent just this from happening.

Her family didn’t buy the story, of course. But that’s what the department has stuck with. An earlier investigation into the incident said that Grier had fallen out of the patrol car. Either way, she sustained serious enough injuries that she had been in a coma since the day it happened. She died on July 21st at Grady Memorial Hospital at 1 p.m.

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Maternal Mortality
Maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization as the death of a woman from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy or within 42 days of pregnancy, expressed as a ratio to 100,000 live births in the population being studied (World Health Organization, 2004).

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Maternal Mortality
Maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization as the death of a woman from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy or within 42 days of pregnancy, expressed as a ratio to 100,000 live births in the population being studied (World Health Organization, 2004).

The dramatic fall in the US MMR during the 20th century has been heralded as a success for both public health programs and obstetrics providers (Figs. 50.1 and50.2).7 The decline, from rates approximating 900 per 100,000 births in 1901 to 9 per 100,000 in 1991, occurred in other resource-rich countries also. This success has been attributed to many factors: the movement of most births to hospitals; improved hygiene and aseptic technique; common use of prenatal care, including screening for preeclampsia; the introduction of blood transfusions and antibiotics; widespread availability of obstetric anesthesia; an increase in training and expertise of obstetrics providers; and an improvement in the overall health of the population. Although all of these may be important, the period of greatest decline was in the 1930s and 1940s, when many hospital-based advances were being introduced. Although the United States in the 1930s was not resource-rich, the advent of state and city maternal mortality review committees focused attention on causes of and solutions for maternal mortality. Developing community consensus that involves collaboration between the public health system and hospitals and providers, together with forming a local maternal mortality review committee (MMRC), should be considered the model when maternal mortality and morbidity are addressed.

More recently, however, the national US metrics for maternal mortality have been rising. In 2014, the MMR in the United States was 23.8 per 100,000 live births. In large part, the increase is due to improved ascertainment. However, there also has been an increase in population risk factors such as maternal age and obesity. Even when increased ascertainment is accounted for, maternal mortality in the United States is substantially higher than in other resource-rich countries.

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Maternal Mortality : A Global Perspective
Mark B. Landon MD, in Gabbe's Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 2021

Maternal Health and the Burden of Death and Disability
“Many Births Mean Many Burials”

—Kenyan Proverb
Every year worldwide, it is estimated that more than 300,000 mothers die from preventable causes during pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period—approximately 830 women every day.1,2 Despite ongoing efforts by the global health community, the death rate has dropped by only 44% overall since 1975, far less than the 75% decline anticipated after the introduction of the United Nation (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 1990.3 Despite recent initiatives, which in some resource-poor countries have resulted in quite significant declines over the past few years, too little has happened too late. The irrefutable fact is that the main preventive or remediable interventions to reduce maternal deaths have been well known for many years, and nearly all of these tragedies could be avoided at little or no extra cost. Lives would be saved in those countries which carry a significant burden of maternal and newborn deaths if there was stronger political will to improve the lives of women by placing women's health and reproductive rights far higher up the agenda rather than at the tail end of services, as so often happens. As the father of the Safe Motherhood movement, Professor Mahmoud Fathalla famously said“women are not dying of diseases we cannot treat…they are dying because societies have yet to decide that their lives are worth saving.”

This report updates a previous one that showed maternal mortality rates for 2018 and 2019 (2). In 2020, 861 women were identified as having died of maternal causes in the United States, compared with 754 in 2019 (3). The maternal mortality rate for 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births compared with a rate of 20.1 in 2019 (Table).

While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated some in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past several years. Currently, 61% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.

Liz Cheney for Wyoming

Friend,

God has blessed America. But our freedom will only survive if we protect it, if we take our duty and our obligation seriously.

But I also know that at this moment, we are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before. And that is a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our Constitutional Republic. And he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.

Now, some in my party are embracing former President Trump. And even after all we’ve seen, they’re enabling his lies. Many others are urging that we not confront Donald Trump, that we look away. And that is certainly the easier path.

But to argue that the threat posed by Donald Trump can be ignored is to cast aside the responsibility that every citizen – every one of us – bears to perpetuate the Republic. We must not do that, and we cannot do that.

During this time of testing, I am asking for your help. My bid for re-election is going to be a fight, but it is a fight I am ready to wage. And it is a fight that I encourage you to join.