Light Blogging – Rank 41
March 12th, 2010 by SocProf and tagged Gender, Health, Healthcare
That’s the US’s world ranking on maternal mortality:
Amnesty report condemns US death rates of women in childbirth | World news | guardian.co.uk via kwout
“Mothers die not because the United States can’t provide good care, but because it lacks the political will to make sure good care is available to all women…
Whatever form they finally take, President Obama’s healthcare reforms will not resolve the crisis of unavailable and unaffordable maternal care, says Amnesty.”
The whole article is pretty devastating.
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