Maternal Mortality, Abortion, and Race

CBS News misled its viewers to believe that the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of all wealthy nations and then deceitfully blamed a lack of abortions and an abundance of racism for this.
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A 2016 paper in The Lancet documents these facts:
• “Despite knowledge of its importance, only a few countries using ICD-10 reliably code late maternal deaths. This is especially egregious because many of the same countries who have completed multiple confidential enquiries also have not recorded a single late maternal death in their official statistics. Denmark, Ireland, Finland, and the UK all fall into this category. Australia, France, and South Africa likewise completed multiple confidential enquiries and have recorded a total of eight maternal deaths combined in the entirety of their official statistics.”
• “The USA … is also one of the only countries that has proactively improved its civil registration system with addition of a pregnancy checkbox on the standard death certificate….”
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The U.S. defines pregnancy-related deaths to include “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 1 year of the end of a pregnancy- regardless of the outcome, duration or site of the pregnancy-from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.” www.gao.gov/pr...
A 2017 article in The Economist titled “Is Pregnancy in America Much Deadlier Than in Other Rich Countries?” reports:
• “The question is harder to answer than you might think.”
• “In rich countries, these deaths are tallied from vital-registration systems which in turn compile data from death certificates. These, however, are known to undercount maternal deaths, partly because doctors must select a cause of death from thousands of codes.”
• “According to data from death certificates, America’s rate is 21 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. In Britain, which does not use the pregnancy checkbox, the rate is four to five times lower. It is a rate that British health authorities do not consider reliable.”
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Abortion played no role in the death of Kira Johnson:
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Association does not prove causation, and this fact is commonly taught in high school:
www.justfacts....
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Studies show that women who have an abortion are much more likely to die young than those who deliver a child:
• “Increased risks of death were 45%, 114% and 191% for 1, 2 and 3 abortions, respectively, compared with no abortions after controlling for other reproductive outcomes and last pregnancy age.” academic.oup.c...
• “The mortality was lower after a birth (28.2/100,000) than after a spontaneous (51.9/100,000) or induced abortion (83.1/100,000).” www.sciencedir...
• “Compared with women who delivered, those who aborted had a significantly higher age-adjusted risk of death from all causes (1.62), from suicide (2.54), and from accidents (1.82), as well as a higher relative risk of death from natural causes (1.44), including the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (2.18), circulatory diseases (2.87), and cerebrovascular disease (5.46).” pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Obesity, HIV, and high blood pressure increase the risk of maternal mortality:
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A 2019 paper in the Annals of Family Medicine found that “social and behavioral factors”-not “deficiencies in health care access or delivery”-are the main drivers of life expectancy disparities in the United States: www.annfammed....
The lowest rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. is not among white women or Asian women but Hispanic women: www.gao.gov/pr...
Victim mentalities reduce the willpower needed to make positive changes: www.pnas.org/d...
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[@MarkFries-o7n]

Great review

[@chdinct6792]

Wouldn’t have known how distortive CBS news reporting was on this topic since I never watch it, though not surprised. Thank you for setting the facts straight. The truth will always win out in the end, and I believe the tables are turning on the MSM lies.

[@kentiner63]

Thanks for this informative and exposing video.

[@jhs55]

The problem with babies dieing is with the government and Doctors fault.